{"id":1652,"date":"2025-11-19T23:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2025-11-19T23:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:11:22","slug":"from-the-margins-to-power-white-supremacy-gains-ground-in-u-s-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/american-community-media\/from-the-margins-to-power-white-supremacy-gains-ground-in-u-s-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Margins to Power: White Supremacy Gains Ground in U.S. Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From Christian nationalism to \u201cGreat Replacement\u201d theories, these ideas now shape laws, speeches, and party strategies threatening civil rights, vulnerable populations, and the stability of American democracy.
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Only ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable for white supremacist ideas to take root inside the U.S. political and governmental system. Today, these narratives are part of mainstream public discourse and even serve as the basis for new laws that endanger the rights of minority groups such as immigrants and African Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a briefing help by American Community Media<\/a> (ACoM), titled \u201cThe Mainstreaming of White Supremacy: From the fringes of everyday life to the halls of American power,\u201d experts analyzed how these ideas have embedded themselves in the U.S. political landscape during the Trump era\u2014and how they continue gaining legitimacy among sectors of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obama, Trump, and the Activation of Racial Resentment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Sanford Schram pointed to a clear turning point: the election of Barack Obama. \u201cThe reaction to the election of the first non-white president activated a more conscious, more resentful, and politically organized white identity,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the foundations of white nationalism were already present, Schram argued that the mix of racial resentment, the rise of the Tea Party, and Donald Trump\u2019s rhetoric ultimately legitimized views that had previously been inadmissible in the public sphere\u2014and turned them into electoral strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Heath Rosenthal, the phenomenon cannot be understood without examining the digital ecosystem that amplifies these messages. \u201cToday there are thousands of people online saying Hitler wasn\u2019t that bad. It\u2019s no longer a meme. They mean it,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anonymity, algorithms, and echo chambers did the rest: remarks that once would have triggered public rejection are now normalized among groups bound by indignation, conspiracy theories, and deep distrust of institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian Nationalism: Where Faith, Race, and Power Intersect<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A central part of the discussion focused on Christian nationalism\u2014a political project, not a spiritual movement, that seeks to legitimize the idea that the United States should be governed according to religious principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Taylor and Heath Rosenthal agreed that this movement is not an expression of faith but a vehicle for power. Rosenthal added an unsettling detail: many of its leaders openly advocate eliminating women\u2019s right to vote and promote a social order in which men rule by \u201cdivine design.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also highlighted the uncomfortable fact that pro-Trump coalitions have succeeded in linking these sectors with Latino and Black communities through religious media networks and messianic narratives\u2014such as \u201cTrump as God\u2019s chosen one\u201d or \u201cprotector of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Leap Into Public Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Burghart offered the most striking data point: what began in digital fringes now influences state and federal laws. His research shows that thousands of state legislators have belonged to or allied themselves with extremist movements. Ideas once dismissed as fringe\u2014such as conspiratorial \u201cgeoengineering\u201d claims or COVID denialism\u2014have already inspired laws in at least two states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The extremist movement grew from thousands to millions of adherents during the pandemic and the Trump years. \u201cNone of this comes out of nowhere. These are ideas incubated on the margins that then ascend to the center of political power,\u201d Burghart said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schram stressed that the normalization of white supremacy is no longer just incendiary rhetoric\u2014it has become a mode of governance. He pointed to court rulings that enabled discriminatory practices and warned that the ultimate goal of these sectors is \u201cto completely repeal civil rights laws.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor added that the decline of Christianity as a demographic majority has intensified Christian nationalism. That identity-based fear fuels political projects such as MAGA, which he described as \u201cthe intersection between the white majority that fears disappearing and the Christian majority that does not want to become a minority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In parallel, Burghart warned about the normalization of conspiracy theories like the \u201cGreat Replacement,\u201d amplified by media figures such as Tucker Carlson and bolstered by organizations with eugenic roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The panel agreed that the battle also extends into education and culture, where new initiatives aim to rewrite U.S. history by removing references to slavery and segregation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the growth of these movements within the Republican Party, the experts emphasized that democratic majorities still exist and can respond. \u201cThey\u2019re loud, but they\u2019re not popular,\u201d Druzin reminded the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Christian nationalism to \u201cGreat Replacement\u201d theories, these ideas now shape laws, speeches, and party strategies threatening civil rights, vulnerable populations, and the stability of American democracy. Only ten years ago, it would have been unthinkable for white supremacist ideas to take root inside the U.S. political and governmental system. Today, these narratives are part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[1277,196,2079,2080,86,2078],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-community-media","tag-american-community-media","tag-california","tag-disinformation","tag-u-s-politics","tag-usa","tag-white-supremacy"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavoz.us.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}