Whiteness is a disease that appears to be spreading

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That's according to New York University history professor Cristina Beltran, who wrote in the Washington Post, "To understand Trump's support, we must think in terms of multiracial whiteness."

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Yes, Trump's voters – and his mob – are disproportionately white, but one of the more unsettling exit-poll data points of the 2020 election was that a quarter to a third of Latino voters voted to reelect Trump," she wrote, noted Powerline blogger John Hinderaker.

"Many black and brown voters have family and friends who fervently backed the MAGA policy agenda, including its delusions and conspiracy theories," Beltran wrote. "... I call this phenomenon multiracial whiteness – the promise that they, too, can lay claim to the politics of aggression, exclusion and domination.

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"Rooted in America's ugly history of white supremacy, indigenous dispossession and anti-blackness, multiracial whiteness is an ideology invested in the unequal distribution of land, wealth, power and privilege — a form of hierarchy in which the standing of one section of the population is premised on the debasement of others," the professor wrote. She said "multiracial whiteness" is "a discriminatory worldview in which feelings of freedom and belonging are produced through the persecution and dehumanization of others."

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