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Runfastandwin's avatar

I cannot wait for the day when the only story about tangeranus is that he died in prison today.

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David Fisher's avatar

Actually not sure I buy the "all about the racism" story. Was appeasement in Weimar Germany all about the racism? Partly sure, but partly also about a fear of communism. Which we seem to have now too, even if in our current context it seems a lot less realistic. And some of the reaction is just about stupidity and inertia. The idea of a candidate who should legitimately be barred by the 14th amendment is surprising, novel, unusual simply because it hasn't happened since the 14th amendment passed. And people are dumb and don't absorb novelty quickly. I have a lot of Israeli friends who have told me with not a little jealousy that we in the US have a stable democracy that won't fall apart as quickly as theirs is. Why do they believe that? Because ours has lasted a long time and not fallen apart yet. People are bad at understanding change. Trump is genuine change as opposed to the incremental kind of most normal politics. Pundits may be particularly bad at it, because they make a living pretending normal incremental change is more exciting and dramatic than it actually is. And sure racism and white supremacy are an important part of US politics and a particularly important part of the Trump agenda and a big part of why Trump is genuine change and not incremental change. So maybe I'm just saying it might be as much an implicit denial of the importance of white supremacism as an implicit valuing of white supremacist biases.

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