Everyone know that Trump only won the 2016 Presidential election because his supporters were racists. That’s what the media tell us. But were they?
I think we need to have another, closer, look at that and try to work out whether that was what really happened – with the election, with Trump winning and with the coverage the media gave it for the next 4 years after he’d won.
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