Welcome to Ballot Barriers, Mic’s weekly voting column for the 2020 election. Each week we’ll explore the challenge of voting in an election year that’s unlike any other.
The white nationalist takeover of U.S. politics didn’t begin on Nov. 8, 2016. It didn’t even begin when Trump won the Republican nomination the summer of 2016, nor when he first announced his candidacy in 2015. It began much earlier, when the first European settlers set foot on Indigenous land, and when they kidnapped and enslaved Africans.
We have lived in a hostile nation for more than four hundred years, not four years, but it took this presidency for many of us to notice. Continue reading.