The color line runs straight through every aspect of American society. It's a constant that remains despite the fiction of American exceptionalism and the many myths about whiteness, both big and small, which pretend racism and white supremacy are somehow the backstage or side stage instead of the main stage of American life.
Donald Trump, his advisors, campaign managers, propagandists, surrogates, and consultants — most notably the psychologists and other experts on the human mind and emotions who are in his employ (as they are in both campaigns) — certainly know and understand the power of racism and white supremacy in American (and global) society and how to manipulate it.
