Racism has declined under Tump

And it also declined under Obama, according to a University of Pennsylvania study just completed.

If you look at the past 10 years, the total level of hate crime is declining in the US, as is the amount of racism and anti-immigration sentiment, and Trump’s victory has done nothing to reverse that. Sociologists at the University of Pennsylvania published a study this year showing that Americans have become less inclined to express racist views since 2016, something true of Republican voters as well as Democrats, and a Gallup poll in June 2019 found 76 percent of Americans believe immigration is a good thing, the highest number to date. The same trends are visible in the UK: the population has become less racist and more pro-immigration since the Brexit vote. The liberal narrative about the toxic effect of the rise of far-right populism turns out to be nonsense.

It’s incredibly hard to show that inflammatory rhetoric, whether on the right or the left, causes violent crime. All we know for sure is that violent crime across the world is declining, something painstakingly documented by Steven Pinker in The Better Angels of Our Nature. 

But it does not fit The Narrative. As Mark Twain did not say, "If you do not read the papers you are uninformed. If you do read the papers you are misinformed."

So Twain did not say that, but in 1807 Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter complaining about the misinformation in newspapers:

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day

Jefferson provocatively suggested the advantages of not reading the newspaper:

I will add, that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.

So, race relations have been improving for at least 10 years, racial minorities have seen their standard of living rise faster in the last three years than the white privileged classes, and violent crime is still  falling (just as it has been falling for the last 25 years).

But none of that fits The Narrative so fake news must predominate.