“What is white identity?” In February, the Democratic Senator Chris Murphy posed that question to Jeremy Carl, the Trump administration’s nominee for a top State Department job. It should have been a softball. Carl has built his career on the claim that white identity is under threat. In his 2024 book, The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart , Carl warns that “white Americans increasingly are second-class citizens in a country their ancestors founded.” A 53-year-