John Stoehr excoriates the Harper’s 152 for in effect playing into the “malicious nihilism” of the Republican Party which, no longer able to hide the racism (because Trump), only can try to burn the entire house down.
White supremacy is no longer coded. The president is campaigning as a full-on fascist. The evidence of institutional racism, leading to the murder of Black men, is undeniable. Yet these anti-PC critics are behaving as if Pandora’s box remains closed.