The more probable outcome, should Trump and his allies return to power, is what the South African sociologist Pierre Van Den Bergh calls Herrenvolk democracy, which he defines as “a parliamentary regime in which the exercise of power and suffrage is restricted, de facto and often de jure, to the dominant group,” which understands itself as a superior race or culture, and in which other races and subcultures are subjected to varying degrees of legal discrimination and violent subjugation.32 Let’s call it Jim Crow 2.0.
