I've long thought the racism-everywhere lens is too simplistic and useless. But with how the Trump regime's policies are all generally incompetent and harmful to our country, yet there is still so much full-throated support based around things like deputizing fundamentalist militias to round up minorities and send them to concentration camps, it's starting to look pretty on point.

And sure, there are many rationalizations like most of the targets are "illegals" or whatever. But if the people espousing these justifications weren't racist, their instinct would instead be to think "hey these blatant violations of the Constitution could easily happen to my own family" rather than to other the citizens inevitably getting swept up as an outgroup (eg "app says so").

his company (eagerly) enables the work ICE is doing to disappear people off the street, the genocide perpetuated by the IDF against the Palestinian populace, among other atrocities and in general is pretty open about keeping “Wesrern supremacy” via state backed violence. white nationalist or not there’s a ton else he and his company needs to answer for

I actually agree that racial hatred is likely not the the lens he personally sees the world through, the article and my parent comment make it clear that his motivations come from an authoritarian personality that will excuse almost anything for a strong leader- but racism is absolutely the lens MAGA sees the world through, and his worldview does justify working with and enabling them. There is a long history of minorities supporting racist authoritarian movements when it will make them money or offer some perceived protection: freemen slave catchers in the antebellum south, free black people working for the confederate army. The Association of German National Jews and The German Vanguard were Jewish pro-NAZI groups. In this case, the hate is mostly targeted at hispanic and middle eastern people, so he might feel safe (for now), but it is a dangerous association, because once they feel they've eliminated the "threat" from those groups, they will go after others.

During the civil rights movement in the USA, the white supremacist terrorists rebranded themselves as caring about other non-race based issues for plausible deniability when they started to lose widespread political support, with terms like law and order, immigration, and states rights, but it was only ever the thinnest of pretenses because it was still the same people doing the same things. If you're familiar with MAGA supporters, or have seen the numerous leaked private text scandals from MAGA leaders, you will know they are openly racist and racial hate motivated in private among each other, and only put on the pretense of other issues in public forums. They're not just labeled Nazis and racists by their political opponents, but proudly use those terms to describe themselves in private. You can see with the Trump administration, e.g. firing judges willing to hear legitimate asylum cases from people with brown skin, while actively supporting asylum cases from white people in South Africa- while claiming their actions are about enforcing immigration law. The thin pretense of other concerns falls apart immediately upon inspection, but they are hoping enough people don't inspect too hard, that they can retain political power.