You can pick isolated examples from any political group. Here’s Obama with Louis Farrakhan: https://www.ajc.com/news/local/could-this-long-lost-photo-ha.... Look up what he said. Look up what elected Democrats in San Francisco have said about Asians: https://www.kqed.org/news/11896759/sf-school-board-member-al.... You’d think that, in the current climate, Democrats of all people would rethink the notion that pointing to some racists or antisemites in a crowd of people is somehow reflects on the whole crowd: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/nyregion/columbia-pro-pal...

But to circle back to the point. There’s no arguing with NPR listeners who insist that the Trump GOP, which won near-parity among Hispanics, nearly doubled its vote share among black people, and won 40% of asians, is meaningfully based on “racism.”[1] A meaningfully “racist” party does not lead to a decade of racial depolarization. If you have to come up with the concept of “multiracial whiteness” to reconcile your theory with the facts, that’s because your theory is a joke.

There’s myriad valid criticisms of Trump and the Trump GOP. But this one is painfully dumb, and it persists only because it feeds into a self-flattering white-savior narrative in which NPR listeners are enraptured.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/behind-trump...