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Yes, he has an intrinsic hostility to people who are not white, particularly when they challenge him, but as a matter of policy, the whole idea of building a wall for which Mexico would pay was just a cheap campaign stunt to, once again, please the people in front of him.\n\nTrump is not committed to that wall on principle. He is committed only to looking good as a result of whatever comes of it. Mexico is never going to pay for it, and he knows it. He has always known it. That was just another lie. Someone must have stuck the phrases \u201cchain migration\u201d and \u201cdiversity lottery\u201d into his brain \u2014 easy buzzwords, you see \u2014 and he can now rail against those ideas for applause lines.\n\nBut he is completely malleable on actual immigration policy. He doesn\u2019t have the stamina for that much reading. Learning about immigration would require reading more words than would fit on a television news chyron.\n\nThat is because Trump is man-as-message, man-as-messiah. Trump support isn\u2019t philosophical but theological.\n\nTrumpism is a religion founded on patriarchy and white supremacy.\n\nIt is the belief that even the least qualified man is a better choice than the most qualified woman and a belief that the most vile, anti-intellectual, scandal-plagued simpleton of a white man is sufficient to follow in the presidential footsteps of the best educated, most eloquent, most affable black man.\n\nAs President Lyndon B. Johnson said in the 1960s to a young Bill Moyers: \u201cIf you can convince the lowest white man he\u2019s better than the best colored man, he won\u2019t notice you\u2019re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he\u2019ll empty his pockets for you.\u201d\n\nTrump\u2019s supporters are saying to us, screaming to us, that although he may be the \u201clowest white man,\u201d he is still better than Barack Obama, the \u201cbest colored man.\u201d