Identity politics is the real racism, misogyny and xenophobia. The very notion that people can be judged on their actions is anathema to the left. I didn’t like Obama because of his actions as President, not because he was black. I don’t like Susan Rice because of her actions, not because she is a woman. The left are the real racists, misogynists and xenophobes.
It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Read more here.