I don’t think anyone saw the magnitude of what was going to happen on November 3, 2026. President Donald Trump thought he was leading America into a White Nationalist future that was rewriting American history to reflect a white male dominated history to the exclusion of everyone else. He was, in essence, “bleaching” America’s population, deporting millions of people of color to countries not necessarily their home countries. I didn’t read about planefuls of Europeans being deported to Asia. I know that white Afrikaners were being visas to the United States, but visas were being denied to people from Somalia and other African and South American countries.

There have been all sorts of policies implemented to reverse the demographic trend where Americans of European ancestry would be less that 50 percent. Donald Trump has been the most overtly racist president that the United States has had Since 1860. I will never forget the full page ad that Trump took out in the New York Post demanding that the Central Park Four, four Black men, be executed. They were later be exonerated.

And Trump was using his racism and the racism of his followers to do a sleight of hand. While Trump was fueling the racist rage of his followers, he was picking their pockets. Not only did he gain financially from his “One Big Beautiful Bill,” that gave tax breaks to the uber-wealthy, but he was also implementing energy, public lands and foreign policies that benefited the oil and gas industry. Can Trump help it that he had a lot of oil and gas company stock? Trump was using the racism of some of his followers against them to enrich himself and other wealthy people.

It’s like the old saying, “The more things change, the more they remain the same.” In the days when there were attempts to organize White and Black sharecroppers to get a just piece of the American economic pie, Southern influencers would play the race card, and destroy the unity for a better economic position so that poor white folks could somehow feel they had a better place in life than Black folks, a place that was only a delusion.