"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."

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"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."

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/25

"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."

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/24

"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."

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/23

Noting that "the nearly half of Republicans who said the Epstein files mattered at least 'a little' to how they assess Trump’s presidency in July 2025 dropped to just 36 percent by November," Kalli Hollaway says,

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/22

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-maga-trump-morals/

(continued from /19)

"Katherine Stewart, an expert on white Christian nationalism and author of the 2025 New York Times bestseller, 'Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy,' wrote to me by email."

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/20

"In fact, many conservative American Christians happily ignore entreaties from the Beatitudes to bless the neediest in favor of exacting punishment on them.

'What some on the hard right think is religion amounts, in many cases, to a punitive impulse: the desire to punish perceived evildoers and transgressors,'" (continued in /20)

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