White anxiety drives demogogic scapegoating across US politics.

Evidence

The indefinite future of whiteness has, in the United States and beyond, unleashed a violent underbelly of rage within the corridors of political power and on the street. This fragility, or “white anxiety,” as some have called it, is why demagogues engage in fearmongering, stirring up anxiety about Mexican “illegals,” Asian immigrants who take “American jobs,” Muslims who are branded as terrorists, and Black men and women exercising their First Amendment rights. Its power, once unclothed of its bluster and stripped down to its loins, is nothing but fear. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1139

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial anxiety about Obama ignited the Tea Party movement — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 270; Presidential scapegoating can make hate feel patriotic. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 149; Feeling in last place racially predicts white endorsement of right-wing extremism. — Erin Cooley, Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Nava Caluori, Nicholas Elacqua, and William Cipolli, White Americans who perceive themselves…, 12