El Paso is Trump and Trump is El Paso

John Wight
3 min readAug 5, 2019

Let us be clear: white supremacy defines the United States far more than democracy ever has. It is an ideology embedded and entrenched within the country’s institutions and is the bulwark of its dominant cultural values. How could it be otherwise when it comes to a nation that was born in the genocide of its indigenous people and developed on the back of the African slave trade?

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