Every president since Nixon has legitimized and redirected racist resentments

Evidence

Obama ended up following in the racist footsteps of every president since Richard Nixon: legitimizing racist resentments, saying those resentments were not racist, and redirecting those resentments toward political opponents. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1220

Categorization

• XREF: This is a concrete presidential-history instance of Kendi’s causal mechanism: policy/resentment management preceding and shaping racial ideas. — connects to: White suburban antibusing parents weaponized the Silent Majority trope against Nixon — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 72; Every US administration from Nixon on ran surveillance and registration targeting Arabs and Muslims. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 254