Welcome to Democracy-ish.

I'm Torre.

And I'm Danielle Moody.

And we're coming to you live from the United States of America, now featuring fewer white people than ever before.

It's the future.

The census lets us know now that the number of white people in America has declined for the first time ever, partly due to millennials having fewer babies and opioids taking out more people

than expected. We thought that we were getting, we're going to get to white people not being

the racial majority by 2050. Now we think we will get there by 2045.

And this is really important because I remember in 2016,

I saw several political interviews where Trump supporters were talking.

And they would spontaneously say on their own things like, this is our last

chance, as if they understood. And I think a lot of white people understand at a very deep level

that the future of their racial majority is coming to an end.

And they fear what will happen when that happens.

So they needed to put somebody like Donald Trump in charge to maintain white supremacy.

And putting aside Trump specifically,

because we've talked enough about that moron on this show.

But the white fear of losing power in this country is deeply connected to the knowledge that the

end of the white racial majority is within our lifetimes, especially if you're a millennial,

100% within your lifetime.

And that notion is very scary to a lot of white people because to them,

whiteness equals power and dominance.

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