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44) Support in the primaries for Trump in areas with sharp demographic shifts carried over into the general election: not only did he handily win in most Midwestern states experiencing such shifts, he also eked out slim margins in three key states where they were an issue.
45) What all of these numbers and the studies around them tell us is that economics have relatively little effect on the levels of racism and other bigotry in America.
46) Its underlying cause, in fact, is a pervasive fear among white people that they are losing their positions of demographic privilege, and its accompanying cultural and economic advantages.
46) There are three ways of addressing this fear: 1) By accommodating it, capitulating to it, and encouraging a politics of intolerance that lies when it tells people these fears are well grounded, as Republicans and the conservative movement have done for a very long time ...
47) 2) By ignoring it, and assuming that the people experiencing these demographic shifts will eventually “get over it” and adjust their worldviews ...
48) or 3) Recognizing the difficulties that arise around demographic shifts and addressing them proactively, easing refugees and immigrants into formerly all-white communities thoughtfully and helpfully.
50) While the second approach has been the default standard of liberals and leftists for the past three decades, its inadequacies have been laid bare by the rise of Trump. Similarly, any approach such as Sanders’ will innately be inadequate to this moment in our racial history.
51) Mind you, pointing this out is not necessarily a competitive slight for Sanders; no presidential candidate yet has ever approached or discussed the third option, largely because the role of demographics has been so generally overlooked.
52) Probably the one candidate who has come closest to examining the toxic effects of white demographic fear is Elizabeth Warren, who acknowledged that racism is the driver in mass incarceration of black people in discussing her plans to confront it.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/23/warren-there-is-no-criminal-justice-reform-without-addressing-racism/ …
53) However, all the Democratic candidates—Sanders only being the most prominent example, and hardly alone in this—need to discard, once and for all, the harmful myth that racism can be ended through the simple nostrum of economic well-being.
54) Racism operates in an entirely different sphere: In the underbelly of so much American mythology about who we are and what we have done to create the world we live in today. It loves to tell white Americans they are always the good guys. It hates facing the truth.
55) And it hates change, especially when the change is not one that obviously advantages them. It responds to change with fear, which the mythology supports (think of Trump’s favorite campaign-trail anecdote, about the viper who bites his savior). And with fear comes violence.
56) The reality, of course, is much more complicated than the mythology. If Democrats wish to craft policies that are genuinely effective around facts and logic rather than feel-good half-measures, they will find ways to embrace that reality, instead of inventing false ones.
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