If you wanted to simplify American history, break it down to its most elementary form, it is a long struggle over the question: “How much power should whites have in society relative to everyone else?” Viewed in that framework and context all events make much more sense.
When you earnestly believe in the ethos, the American myth, about liberty and freedom and egalitarianism and rights you find it hard to understand Trump voters. But when you understand the central question in American history it all makes sense.
Slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the New Deal, Civil Rights, the Southern Strategy, Reagonomics, the Obama coalition, the Tea Party, Trumpism. They’re all about the central question in American history.
“How much power do whites have in society relative to everyone else?”
Forgot to add immigration…not just modern times, but historically the US has severely limited non white immigration formally and informally
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