“You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the Blacks,” the president told his chief of staff. “The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.” This is Richard Nixon, as quoted in the diaries of H. R. Haldeman. Nixon pioneered the idea of using race-based fear to get votes “while not appearing to,” and the strategy has been used by (mostly Republican) politicians ever since. Just use terms like “welfare queen,” “law and order,” or “woke mob,” or grossly exaggerate the threat of crime committed by immigrants, and your base...