A lot has been written over the last several months about the so-called white resentment of the so-called working-class whites. But let's not overlook the white resentment among right-wing elites. It may be more dangerous.
I put Antonin Scalia on this list. As a layman reading excerpts from his opinions over the years, I think that resentment oozed out at times. And Chief Justice Roberts also belongs on the list. His career kinda sorta is based on white resentment. He became a rising star at just the time when the Right was looking for legal "scholars" who could put a respectable legal veneer on the notion that racial discrimination was a problem fully solved, and that (largely nonexistent) "reverse discrimination" had become the real problem.
The result was the gutting of the Voting Rights Act as well as the Courts' approval of voter suppression laws. These things weren't done by the KKK or the Nazis. It was done by these guy and others like them. Don't ever forget that.
