Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich admitted in a podcast on America First Policy Institute that the United States became much more racist after electing Barack Obama as the first African-American president in US history.

Gingrich is only saying the obvious.

C&L has covered this extensively over the years. The tea party was created in 2009, out of the white Christian nationalist anger of electing a Black president. Republicans were afraid of Obama's charisma and opened up the floodgates to the far-right racist crackpots that had been kept at bay. Websites promoting neo-Nazi visions and white nationalism rocketed with massive increases in viewership.

They turned into the MAGA cult to support the anti-immigrant, racist, BIRTHER Trump in 2016.

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