I realize, even at this late hour for U.S. democracy, media organizations will be unwilling to describe various Trump administration actions and personnel as racist. Consider this by Tara Palmieri* (bolface mine):

The tolerance for Elon Musk inside of the White House is wearing thin, as they deal with the fallout of his calamitous interview with Larry Kudlow when he touched the third rail – entitlements. Even though Trump’s staffers are terrified of Musk, they know that if you try to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, you die, politically speaking.

“It’s no longer simmering resistance, people are fucking furious,” said a source with knowledge of the situation.

“Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these are our voters,” said a Republican operative close to the White House.

Then we have the ‘disappearance’ of websites about black, Native American, and Asian soldiers from Department of Defense websites**. Then there’s Defense Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, who has pushed some of the most vile racist and antisemitic tropes on social media–and to find the stuff she’s pushing, she is deep into the Nazi web (as someone who is Jewish, she is far more of a threat than some dipshit student).

And, of course, the Trump Administration removed a ban against segregated facilities in federal contracts***.

Moreover, they are attempting to institute a societal order where white Christian men are primus inter pares. This is not a new impulse, by the way, it first reared its head in recent politics during Sarah Palin’s vice presidential candidacy in 2008.

So, yes, they’re racist, even if reporters won’t call them that.

*Palmieri is a right-winger, but she is able to get other Republicans to speak freely.

**Women too, but it should be obvious that misogyny is baked in at this point.

***Other civil rights statutes are on the books, but who knows how long they’ll be effective. This administration certainly won’t enforce them.