Is that his racist statements have helped expose the systemic racism in American culture. The recent rejection and banishment of the Confederate battle flag and statues honoring Confederate Civil War heroes, and the reinvigorated focus on the unfair treatment of African Americans by the criminal justice system, flow somewhat from Mr. Trump’s symbiotic relationship with elements of the white-supremacy movement. Trump has also become strangely fascinated with far-right, white supremacist hate groups like the Proud Boys which have been unquestionably linked with the foiled kidnapping plot of Michigan Governor Michelle Whitmer.