Today’s racism is different from the racism of a 1950’s small southern town with separate public facilities for blacks (“colored”) and whites, an active KKK militia to intimidate anyone not adhering to race separation, plus courts and laws meant to ensure white control of institutions, social networks, and day-to-day commerce. There is racism now but it is not as all-encompassing in its legal, social, and economic structure as it was in the 1950s. That doesn’t rule out extremists trying to eliminate minorities and so forth, but those conflicts are more tribal and hate driven than fully race encompassing. Hate will always be with us. And some people thrive and find happiness in deploying hate as a life choice. It’s my feeling that “Trumpism” is a cult of hate with a floating gas of racism lingering around its vicinity. But the primary emphasis is about embracing hate as an energizing and tribal identity. It’s also possible that the embracing of hate by so many people is driven by a subliminal motivation that “knows” the world is totally screwed and that climate induced disruption is inexorably narrowing our chances of generational survival. None of that is manifested in conscious planning, but the smell of coming collapse is in the air enough to cause a rising blood lust for hate to gain agency over our choices and actions in this era of extreme anxiety.