How White Supremacy Led Donald Trump to The White House

            Michel Omi and Howard Winant point out repeatedly in their essay about racial formation in the United States that the United States is dominated by white supremacy. This alone could be the sole reason why Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was so successful and led to his nomination as president in November of 2016. The United States has been formed to benefit the white male, and to discriminate against anyone who is not white. There are still many citizens of the United States who feel that this is completely normal, and wish for the United States to remain this way.

            One of the reasons Donald Trump’s campaign was so successful was that they were aware of these citizens, and promised them that the United States would return to a white supremacist’s country. This brought these citizens to light, and they voiced their racist opinions. The Trump campaign honed in on this feeling, and used it to be successful with the majority of Americans. Donald Trump ran on the Republican ticket, which is currently considered the “far-right”. Omi and Winant point out in their work, “for example, ‘far right’ projects, which uphold biologistic and racist views of difference, explicitly argue for white supremacist policies” (Omi & Winant, 1994: 58). This is exactly the type of policies that the Trump campaign suggested.

            Among these white supremacist policies on the campaign trail, one stood out the most: radical immigration reform. The most extreme part of this policy was to build a wall along the southern border of the United States, in order to keep undocumented immigrants from traveling over the border into the United States. Donald Trump painted a picture of “Making America Great Again”, which essentially meant trying everything he could to make sure that the majority population of the United States remain white. This notion led him to the White House.