America is still hooked on the drug of white supremacy | Carol Anderson
The violence in Virginia shows that the nation is gripped by a deep malaise – and is writhing under its disastrous effectsCarol Anderson is the author of White Rage
by Carol Anderson
Aug 13, 2017
4 minutes
The United States is in a tailspin. White supremacists are on the march – and have left a trail of blood and destruction in their wake. A march in Charlottesville, Virginia, filled with torches, Nazi flags and chants of “White Lives Matter” culminated in violence that claimed at least one life, and left many more injured.
This is just what many feared the Trump presidency would unleash. David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, supported that view when he said on Saturday that the march “fulfills the promises of Donald Trump” to “take our country back”.
The president was slow to disabuse people of that view. When the nation turned to the president on Friday to
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