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

For people on the right, it’s sparked by horror at changing demographics and gender roles

“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