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This. The radical progressive's worldview is that our society is itself a white supremacist society - this is taken as axiomatic and a matter of definition, not as something that could be meaningfully argued about, or even be said to depend on anything concrete about the real world! Thus, by definition, any support for existing social structures (including support for President Trump!) can be rightly defined as "support for white supremacy". It's a way of thinking that's lifted straight off of, e.g. religious fundamentalism and, perhaps most significantly, the nihilist politics of the late 19th and early 20th century that ultimately led to fascism, naziism, soviet communism etc. etc.
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