Okay, perhaps American voters chose Donald Trump in 2016 for reasons other than racism, a New York Times article admits. It’s a surprising take from a paper that has repeatedly attributed Trump’s election victory to white voters and their hostility to racial minorities.

The Rightward shift of racial minorities is a defining feature of the Trump era, and the trend has only accelerated since the former president’s 2016 win, according to the new NYT piece. In fact, black and hispanic voters are now starting to desert the Democrats in large numbers, which makes the narrative surrounding the “rapist, fascist and racist” Donald Trump a little more complicated…