Nancy Kaffer
Nancy Kaffer
Once you start reading, it's clear that Detroit Free Press columnist Nancy Kaffer won't vote for Donald Trump come Nov. 8:
A vote for him means that white men threatened by demographic changes won't have to worry what people like me think. That the concerns of people of color, or LGBT Americans, or any member of any group that hasn't traditionally held power can be disregarded.
It's the purest iteration of the candidate's appeal. When he lauds the virtues of stop-and-frisk, shorthand for a policy deemed unconstitutional by a federal court, when he says he'll build a wall to keep immigrants out, when he questions, as he did for many years, the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency, when he dismisses, again and again, women, women's voices, and when he insists, implicitly or explicitly, that women are valuable when they're physically attractive and sexually available — Trump is promising the restoration of white male supremacy.
It's right there, in his campaign slogan: Make America great again. It's "again" that's key in parsing this promise — Trump's casting back into America's past, a time when this country was better for white men, but worse for everyone else.
