The election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency has left the political establishment reeling. It took no time for the media to produce post-mortems on how they were so wrong in the time leading up to the election and what a Donald Trump victory meant for, and about, the electorate. One early assessment came from CNN pundit Van Jones. Jones called President-Elect Trump’s victory, delivered by winning the white vote, a “whitelash,” that is, white Americans reacting negatively to the ever changing demographics and cultural make up of twenty-first century America. Based on voting statistics it cannot be denied that it was the white vote that propelled Trump to victory. Yes, Trump out performed Mitt Romney with blacks and Hispanics, but not by much, and not nearly enough to net Trump the win. The white vote brought Trump victory.
White Trump voters voted racially and for racial reasons. The overwhelming majority likely do not realize this. Most of those few who do will likely not admit it. But it is reality. There is now a budding racial consciousness among white Americans. Van Jones laments this. He is visibly shaken by this. As always whites are not allowed to vote for their interests to the exclusion of non-white interests. Whites are supposed to set their interests, if it could even be said that they have interests, aside in favor of multiculturalism. This is coming to an end, and it is ending because, frankly, we are…