Has the racism underlying Trump’s candidacy and presidency ever been in doubt? He rehearsed racist stereotypes about Mexican immigrants during the Republican primaries, and then surrounded himself with advisors who helped him run on a white nationalist platform. Once in office, he launched a commission widely seen as a veiled attempt at minority voter suppression and appointed an attorney general whose record on race previously disqualified him for a position on the federal judiciary. When Trump planned to visit the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum last December, the NAACP urged him to skip the ceremony in light of his abhorrent record on civil rights. There may be no American president since the days of Jim Crow who has done more to foster the ideals of white supremacy. One need only look at Trump’s record to draw that conclusion. But our national discourse on this topic often gets simplified to that singular question: Is he a “racist”?