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‘The Confederacy won,’ Emory professor says of Trump victory

Trump victory ‘feels like the kind of last stand of white supremacy’

President Donald Trump’s victory is the “last stand of white supremacy,” according to an Emory University African American studies professor.

Professor Carol Anderson, author of “White Rage,” also said “the Confederacy won,” during an interview on Democracy Now!

Trump “advocated” for “racism,” “xenophobia” and “hatred, all wrapped in a sense of honor and gallantry,” Anderson said. This was in “backlash to what they fear was the great replacement.”

“Misogyny” also played a role in Kamala Harris’ loss, according to Anderson.

She said:

I think part of what we’re looking at, because she was explicit about policies, and so the language that she just needs to explain her policies is hokum. It’s that it is — we’re looking at the misogyny and the racism and the fear of what it meant to have a Black Asian woman who’s married to a Jewish man sitting in the White House, that this was not the kind of vision of America that that large swath that voted for Trump believe is America. It is the fear of what a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual, diverse America could mean. It means — and so, you’re seeing the backlash to her very being.

Exit polling in swing states, however, shows Trump has performed well among racial minorities, winning 46 percent of the Latino vote, a record for GOP presidential candidates.

In fact, he won a majority of Latino men in “key states,” according to NBC News. He also won a majority of American Indians.

But, both “misogyny” and “racism” “fuels Trump” and the “MAGA movement,” according to Anderson, who also said the Second Amendment was about slavery. She has blamed “white rage” for the problems in black communities, as well.

Georgetown University Professor Michelle Goodwin agrees that America is racist and sexist. The election “paints a picture with regard to how people think about electing a woman, how people think about electing a woman who is Black and of Asian descent.”

Other academics have made similar statements about Trump supporters in recent days.

For example, University of South Carolina instructor Sueanna Smith blamed the “uneducated” for “holding the rest of the country hostage.” These “uneducated” people apparently include her own daughter, who Smith said voted for Trump. The English instructor has previously lamented how men do not respect her PhD.

A handful of University of California Berkeley professors also blamed sexism and racism for Trump’s victory, as recently reported by The College Fix.

Others went further. For example, a University of Oregon administrator went on a profanity-laced tirade against Trump supporters and urged them to commit suicide.

“Do something because you’re f***ing stupid, and I hope you go jump off a f***ing bridge,” Leonard Serrato said in an Instagram video, first noticed by Old Row.

He’s now on administrative leave, as reported by The Fix.

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Matt has previously worked at Students for Life of America, Students for Life Action and Turning Point USA. While in college, he wrote for The College Fix as well as his college newspaper, The Loyola Phoenix. He previously interned for government watchdog group Open the Books. He holds a B.A. from Loyola University-Chicago and an M.A. from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He lives in northwest Indiana with his family.