whitelash

As Lilia wrote in the Times, the whitelash thesis "is convenient because it sanctions a conviction of moral superiority and allows liberals to ignore what [Trump] voters said were their overriding concerns."

Van Jones emerged as a star last November when he said that Donald Trump's election was a result of a "whitelash." Now the CNN political commentator is hosting a series of town hall meetings across the nation that he describes as "Anthony Bourdain meets Phil Donahue."

This was a whitelash. This was a whitelash against a changing country, it was a whitelash against a black president in part.