"Trump supporters believed the racial contract — and above all, its guarantee that whiteness was the most immutable hurdle to the American presidency — had been broken. 'We haven’t felt like ourselves since Barack Obama,' Megyn Kelly said just this past September, a reminder of the imagined injury white racists sustained nearly two decades ago."
"Their concern was always reserved for the white children they saw as fully human.
The moral charade was always going to be undone by the Trump of it all. His supporters are members of a reactionary movement almost singularly animated by racial grievance."
"For the better part of a decade, conservatives lurched from one pedophile-focused moral panic to the next, proclaiming themselves the true saviors of children. They didn’t mean all children, of course; these are the same people who gifted a white woman with $750,000 just for calling a 5-year-old autistic Black boy the n-word."