Photographer Ruddy Roye. Photo: Mosijah Roye.
Donald Trump’s unlikely ascent to the Oval Office spawned countless think pieces aimed at demystifying the so-called Trump Voter, be that a Midwestern neo-Nazi, a suburban white woman, a Latino man, or a gay former liberal.
And even through Trump himself has left office, Trumpism is here to stay. That’s why photographer Ruddy Roye decided to document Trump supporters at rallies during the final stretch of his term. Selections from the series will be published today, accompanying an article in the
New York Review of Books.
“As a friend of mine, the writer Rebecca Lee Sanchez, says in the article, the violence of revolution and revolt is violence, but it stems from grievances nonetheless,” says Roye, who previously trained his lens on former Black miners of Kentucky largely forgotten in national conversations about coal country. “If we recognize the grievances that cause the revolution, maybe we can find the solutions.”