White nationalist support grew and voter suppression followed multiracial electoral victories

Evidence

But those heady days of promise soon gave way to the grim reality that the racist systems that have undergirded our society for four hundred years do not collapse after a few months of protest. The number of voters supporting Trump, a white nationalist president, increased when he ran for a second term. And when Trump lost, his supporters led an insurrection in the nation’s Capitol, seeking, just as white mobs had done repeatedly during Reconstruction, to overturn and delegitimize an election won by a multiracial coalition of voters. Then, in response to well-organized Black, Latino, and Indigenous voters helping turn heavily Republican states such as Georgia and Arizona blue, Republicans began a coordinated effort to introduce and pass hundreds of bills that would make it harder for millions of Americans to vote. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1325

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s existing focus on how origin-dating (Reconstruction as a white-supremacist counter-revolution against multiracial democracy) recurs in the 2020 insurrection. — connects to: Perceived white Christian persecution drives opposition to voter access — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 48