The ruthless othering practiced by Mr. Trump started long ago in the institution of slavery and perfected over hundreds of years. After the civil-rights movement, it morphed and hardened into a general indifference toward racial crises, crises represented most vividly by inner cities. We may be scandalized by Mr. Trump’s segregationist logic, but the logic is easy to follow. But despite the appearance of favoritism, white working class Americans are as politically marginalized as Mr. Trump’s critics; they’re in the ghetto, too. The lowly ghetto, in other words, might finally rise up.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2018 19:30 UTC