"racism is the true darkness at the heart of the matter"

Because I believe this, and other people who think like me believe this, and we've repeated it so many times that we now simply accept it as a fact.  Donald Trump is a racist and so is anyone who voted for him.

You guys (more accurately, the media, you just repeated it) peddled this narrative throughout the entire election.  Then you lost, and it was determined to be false.  Apparently, that news hasn't made it's way to the top of the ivory towers yet.  When we look at the data we see that Trump won counties that swung the election for Obama.  Millions of Obama voters didn't magically become racists in 4 years.  Why would millions of racists vote for a black president twice?  That makes no sense at all.  My article is much better than yours (better research) but Civil Beat didn't publish it because it did not conform the prevailing media narrative.  You can read it here:  

https://liberty-intl.org/2016/11/why-trump-won/