In a blissfully ignorant article published late last week in the Huffington Post, Rebecca Traister said that the 2016 race is emblematic of the end of white executive supremacy in the United States.

Traister’s article, titled “The Election And The Death Throes Of White Male Power,” slams Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, lumping them together as backwards politicians who would damage America should they be elected.



To Traister, they also represent “exclusive white male power,” despite the fact that both men are Hispanic. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, would represent a shift in power.

“This moment, this election, these years represent the death throes of exclusive white male power in the United States,” she writes. Angry whites aren’t going quietly into the night, however. Whites are perpetrating “the execution of black men by police” and “snarling fury and violence.”

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, though flawed, are not part of the white, male power structure. “Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton mean a lot. They represent an altered power structure and changed calculations about who in this country may lead,” she writes.

But who does represent the white, male power structure? Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump. “Imagine Ted Cruz or Donald Trump or Marco Rubio in office with a Republican Congress and Supreme Court seats to fill,” Traister writes. “Voting: restricted. Immigration: halted. Abortion: banned. Equal pay: unprotected. Same-sex marriage: overturned.”

She continues, however, “Imagine, on the other hand, a Clinton presidency — or even a Sanders one, though even a white male Jewish socialist may invite less ire than a woman. Clinton, like Obama before her, isn’t carrying just her own baggage, but will stand in as the symbolic target for those whose fury at increased female autonomy has been building…

“If she wins, she — and we — will be forced to do battle with this rising, chilling, ever more open threat from those who feel enraged that their country is no longer their own. I fear that there’s a lot more terror ahead of us,” she concludes.