Supremacy is the magical thinking that one’s ingroup is the only source of truth. It’s the ultimate conspiracy theory, and the apotheosis of a hierarchical worldview.

Supremacy is a common worldview shared by narcissists and totalitarians.

Supremacist groups in American history

• Christian nationalists
• Evangelicals
• Confederates
• white nationalists and neo-Nazis
• white power movement
• prosperity gospel
• free market ideologues
• plutocrats
• originalists
• libertarians
• conservatives

White supremacy in particular is both a psychological condition and an institutional condition — the latter a part of what the right-wing is trying to cover up in its hysteria over and zeal to ban Critical Race Theory. They don’t want anybody poking their little heads into the past to uncover all the ways wealthy whites’ ancestors systematically screwed over Black people for centuries in order to get ahead themselves.

What refutes supremacy?

• data
• empathy
• love
• psychological and cognitive biases
• The Greatest Commandment
• The Golden Rule
• reciprocity
• meritocracy
• multi-model thinking