2014 was also the year that the Islamic State emerged in the public consciousness as a significant threat. In June, Islamic State forces attacked an airfield near Tikrit, Iraq, slaughtering hundreds of Iraqi air force cadets. (The prior November, he’d shared a false meme blaming black Americans for most killings of whites.) No group voted more loyally Democratic in 2016 than black women, who, according to exit polls, preferred Clinton to Trump by a 90-point margin. But, then, Trump’s presidency is itself a reaction to issues of race, immigration and a terrorism threat that emerged shortly before his candidacy and gave him a viable primary platform.

Source: Washington Post March 20, 2019 17:48 UTC