In recent years, I’ve written about the story of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man who was murdered in Arizona in the first documented hate crime in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The gunman — who apparently mistook Sodhi for a Muslim — reportedly declared during his arrest: “I stand for America all the way!” The bigotry Sodhi encountered has always seemed — to me, at least — analogous to the racist and xenophobic entitlement that Donald Trump and many of his followers express toward...