Herrenvolk
Americannoun
plural
Herrenvölkernoun
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, such Herrenvolk white supremacist politics are not an outlier in American history.
From Salon
Writing in the Guardian, civil rights law professor Carol Anderson summarizes the Republican Party and movement conservatism’s commitment to racial authoritarianism and what has been called "Herrenvolk democracy":
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Trump's vision of America is a white Christian male-dominated Herrenvolk democracy.
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You make a critical intervention: America has been a racial democracy, or Herrenvolk democracy, for most of its existence.
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In many ways, it is a return to form and to the racialized Herrenvolk democracy created at the time of the founding.
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