Ian Haney López interviewed by The Washington Post, Dec. 11, 2015
“These sorts of terms make Trump seem as if he’s this exceptional unique outlier, that he’s doing something that nobody else has done,” said Haney-López. “Clearly, in some ways he’s different from other politicians, but in his strategic decision to pursue support, to mobilize support by appealing to people’s racial fears, he’s well within the tradition that has been established in the Republican Party since roughly 1963.”