| Here are some things that happened this week:The president of the United States went to the mattresses to stop military bases named in honor of Confederate soldiers from being renamed.One of the president's fiercest keyboard warriors was outed for having trafficked in full-blown, KKK-style racism.The president's official campaign store started selling a t-shirt with a logo design that apes the official symbol of the Nazi party.This last item is not a joke, by the way. Have a gander: |
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You could excuse any one of these as random happenstance. Two of them and you might say it was just coincidence.
But all three? In one week? If that's not enemy action, I don't know what is.
I say this all the time, but it's worth saying again: Not every—or even most!—Trump supporters are racists. But just about every racist is a Trump supporter. And these folks aren't just reluctantly onboard with Trump because he's the only alternative to give them the Supreme Court picks they want. No siree. The more virulent the racist is, the stronger his support for Trump is. Go to Twitter. Look at the Pepe's and the dudes with the laser eyes and the people with Stars 'n' Bars flying in their profile pics.
Or if you prefer, go to Parler and see what these people look like when they're off the leash.
This is probably not an accident.
So on the right, the ugliest people are Trump's strongest supporters while the normal people are mostly in the position of holding their noses.
It's worth contrasting this state of affairs with what's going on on the left, where the ugliest portions of the fringe view Biden as at best a disappointment and at worst a class traitor. Biden's hard-core supporters seem to be . . . black folks and middle-class suburbanites.
Think about it this way: Whenever you see an ugly right-wing rally you see Trump signs and Trump flags.
Now go and start combing through images of the riots or CHOP. You know what you don't see? A bunch of "Biden 2020" placards.
This tells you a lot about the relative health of our two political parties right now.
thebulwark |
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