Night of the old white men

For many white women, panic at the end of absolute majority status for American whites was countered by outrage at Trump’s complicity in the assault on abortion rights. Older white men had no such counter-balance.

A big factor in Donald Trump’s spectacular comeback—the dog-whistle racism that so many older white males responded to—is due to a period of demographic transition which will pass, writes Gwynn Dyer.Wikimedia Commons photograph

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 7, 2024

LONDON, U.K.–The Roman Empire survived for four centuries despite having many rulers worse than Donald Trump—Caligula, Nero, and Commodus—so we should not write off the United States just yet.

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