Shaun KingVerified account

This essay would be far better if it did not pretend to be a rare dissent from an overwhelming consensus: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/ …

The claim that Trump's victory was a victory for white chauvinism is a commonplace, not a marginalized or eccentric view.

The idea that his ascent reflects a distinctively toxic white identitarianism is common to his critics on the right as well as the left.

Coates wants to attack the view (which is also commonplace) that we should look at economics and culture as well as race. Well and good.