See, you get it.

Days without Trump being racist: 0

While this may be true, and it may be comforting, it takes away the complicity of the state and the corporate interests that enable it. It portrays Trump as a rogue actor, separate from other structures. If I know it, and you know it, then the corporate boards and think tanks know it. It’s difficult to absorb, but the intelligencia in America is at the very least okay with what he is doing.