Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally showed how racism is the beating heart of election denial

But many of the hate crimes are soon revealed as fake news staged by Trump opponents to look as though they’d been committed by his supporters. The Muslim-American “victim” in the subway was ultimately arrested for making up the account, according to New York City police. An African-American man was eventually arrested in the case of the spray-pain

And Trump faced a party organized around Hillary Clinton, who was the quintessential advocate of federal power and technocracy. The election determined nothing more than that the crisis of distrust was beginning.

“White nationalist” comes closer. Throughout his adult life Trump was hostile to Black people, contemptuous of women, vicious about immigrants from poor countries, and cruel toward the weak. He was an equal-opportunity bigot. In his campaigns and in the White House he aligned himself publicly with hard-core racists in a way that set him apart from