Book contents
- Whitelash
- Whitelash
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Long Night of Déjà Vu
- 1 Electing Trump and Breaching Norms
- 2 The Exoneration of White Voters
- 3 White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts
- 4 The Sirens of White Nationalism
- 5 Law as Pretext
- 6 Voting While White
- 7 Holding Candidates and Parties Accountable
- 8 We the People: Fashioning a Legal Remedy for Voter Whitelash
- Conclusion The Globalization of Whitelash
- Notes
- Index
3 - White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 January 2020
- Whitelash
- Whitelash
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Long Night of Déjà Vu
- 1 Electing Trump and Breaching Norms
- 2 The Exoneration of White Voters
- 3 White Voters and the Law of Alternative Facts
- 4 The Sirens of White Nationalism
- 5 Law as Pretext
- 6 Voting While White
- 7 Holding Candidates and Parties Accountable
- 8 We the People: Fashioning a Legal Remedy for Voter Whitelash
- Conclusion The Globalization of Whitelash
- Notes
- Index
Summary
It’s highly unusual for a sitting president’s truthfulness to be questioned as pointedly by members of his own party as President Trump’s has. Then again, perhaps no president has expressed as conflicted a relationship with the truth as Trump. In an unintended spoof of George Washington’s fabled “I cannot tell a lie,” Trump has explained, “I always want to tell the truth. When I can, I tell the truth. And sometimes it turns out to be where something happens that’s different or there’s a change, but I always like to be truthful.”
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- WhitelashUnmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box, pp. 43 - 60Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020