Trump was not elected to protect America. He was chosen to protect whiteness.

[Maru Kitteh]

Trump was not elected to protect America. He was chosen to protect whiteness.

Terrell Jermaine Starr is a senior reporter for Foxtrot Alpha, a blog that covers defense, technology and policy.

There’s a reason why some of President Trump’s supporters don’t fear Russian President Vladimir Putin: Racism is altering their perceptions of what a threat is and isn’t, even at the international level.

The intelligence community has presented Trump evidence that Russia hacked our election, yet he insisted on condemning the findings. He even suggested via Twitter that sworn members of the intelligence community were behaving like “Nazi Germany.”

Trump supporters should have been appalled, but many aren’t. And why should they be? After all, he was not elected to protect America. These Trump backers voted for him because he vowed to be the protector in chief of American

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[wildeyed]

1. It is the whitest white house in my lifetime.

Looking at photos, it is mostly white men with weird Kellyanne lurking in the background occasionally. I guess that makes their supporters happy, but I find it eerie. Where did all the black and brown people go? Have they been raptured, disappeared, erased, something? It doesn't look like my America or any White House I remember, even GWB.

It is strange that those people who voted for him know so little about the history of our country. We fought a war against Nazis and St. Ronny's claim to fame was winning the Cold War against Russia, yet many of his supporters think Democrats are more of a threat to them than Putin's Russia. I have been lurking a great deal on Twitter and Breitbart, and it is clear that is what many believe.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Might be why people voted, but he ran to protect Trumpness...nt

[ananda]

3. So true.

And at the same time he is running one of the
most inhuman, hate-based, delusional, and
destructive governments -- I want to say in
the history of America, but possibly in the
history of the world!

[Maru Kitteh]

4. AGREED. He ran on an appeal to whiteness; but his reason is the same

as it's always been and the only one there ever will be. Trump.