Daryl Davis, 67, started trying to talk white supremacists out of hating people like him when he was 10. In his 2024 book, “The Klan Whisperer,” Davis, an R&B and blues pianist and guitarist, describes his encounters with Klan members and other racists during the past five decades. What effect has the emergence of Donald Trump as a political figure and as president had on white hate groups? However, Donald Trump has given racists carte blanche to operate freely upon their ideology. Not everybody who voted for Donald Trump is a racist.