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Oftentimes, Trump's election is explained with one simple word, racism. That's not at all wrong, but it is woefully insufficient.

Racism is not always the same and the shape that it takes is not inevitable.

Racism is not a static force just as race is not a biological reality.

Racism, like race, has histories.

It has context.

Racism does different sorts of work at different moments.

Of course racism helped Trump secure the presidency.

But that's not an answer, rather it's part of a question my guest today are Joe Lowns and

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