Kluth: Race is the elephant in the room of US foreign policy

Muted yet deafening are the many dog whistles suggesting that American foreign policy under President Donald Trump is at least in part based on race, and specifically on white Christian nationalism.

Nobody in the administration has said so baldly. In fact, all involved reject the idea with well-rehearsed indignation. “I am, by the way, the least racist president you’ve had in a long time,” Trump recently remarked, as he refused to apologize for posting a video that depicted the Obamas as apes in a jungle.