"As Trumpism took hold in the nation in 2015, it was regarded as a kind of temporary madness. But time has revealed that this vulgar spirit is no aberration. It was there all along; the goodly veneer was the lie."
His concern then is, how do we go on from here? We can't just go back, pretending like one party and a good 40% of the electorate didn't do all of this and, in fact, absolutely love it! But how do we go forward knowing that 40% was never operating in good faith, never really cared to have a democracy if they could somehow get away with autocracy built on racism, sexism, and xenophobia?
In Federal government, of course, it's not just Trump; this anti-democracy move started long ago and for me is symbolized most powerfully by the unwillingness of the Republican Senate to affirm Merrick Garland. At that point we knew it was open war without regard for rules. In public life, the fact that it's incredibly rare for a jury to convict an officer of nearly any level of offense after egregiously unnecessary killings and beatings, even when captured on film, has been another obvious sign of the ever-present racist anger. In private life, my lifelong experience of racism and sexism has been just what you report; my dad and husband affirm it's even worse on the sexism side than I'm aware of.Statistics: Posted by Phoebe — Thu Oct 31, 2019 8:41 am
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