December 4, 2016 - 10:21
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In the November 21, 2016 edition of The New Yorker, Toni Morrison argues that Trump won due to the terror of privileged white men in the face of a rapidly diversifying country.
Her take on the election has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.”