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When was America great, according to Donald Trump’s supporters? The short answer, per Trump voters surveyed by the Public Policy Polling firm, is any era when there was no chance a black guy might become president. Forty-five percent of those who voted for Trump in the last election told PPP researchers that they would rather have Jefferson Davis—the president of the Confederacy—lead the country than Barack Obama. Gives you a pretty good sense of what Trump’s base values and admires in its leaders.

Trump voters also told pollsters they believe the most oppressed group in this country today is white Christians. Queried about what “racial group they think faces the most discrimination in America, 45 percent of Trump voters say it’s white people followed by 17 percent for Native Americans with 16 percent picking African Americans, and 5 percent picking Latinos.” (For the record, that’s partly a white American outlook overall; long before Trump launched his campaign, surveys found most white people think they experience more racism than black people.) There were […]