Trump may rival the most racist of presidents given the context of their times, but he hardly invented presidential racism
Even Andrew Johnson, arguably the most virulently racist president, was hardly the first. Photo: Library of Congress Long before Joe Biden became the putative 2020 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, fears were intermittently expressed that he might make some major gaffe that betrayed ignorance, forgetfulness, or insensitivity on some key point of fact or policy.
The Democratic Party was officially racist in its early years, with arch-racist Andrew Jackson , who exhibited lethal hostility to Native Americans as well as Blacks, setting the tone. Yes, some northern Democrats defected and formed the Free Soil Party in 1848 to protest the extension of slavery into the territories , and others joined the new Republican Party and in fact tended to become pro-Reconstruction Radical Republicans after the Civil War.
We’ve had ex-racist presidents who atoned for their sins. Harry Truman is alleged to have been an ally of the Ku Klux Klan early in his career. But as president he desegregated the armed forces, banned discrimination in the civil service, and risked his presidency by deliberately alienating southern racists.
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