Depressing and exasperating.
Trumpists live in an alternate reality — but they believe in it, and that's terrifying | Salon.com
In my public warnings about the
Age of Trump and America's descent into fascism, I have often been far ahead of the hope-peddlers, stenographers and professional centrists of the mainstream news media. But I am no Cassandra or otherwise possess any preternatural gifts. I simply
pay close attention to what the Jim Crow Republicans, Trumpists and other neofascists say and do — and I take them at their word.
As a black
working-class person in America I do not have the
privilege and luxury that many white folks do — especially those with money — of pretending that everything is going to magically be fine, that "the institutions are strong," that the "norms" of democracy will hold, or that "we are a good people." I know for certain that the Trumpists and other neofascists are not
"exaggerating" or engaging in "hyperbole" in their threats to create a
new American apartheid.
To deny reality and embrace such fictions is an example of a particular type of white freedom. On this James Baldwin wrote, "
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."
What have I "learned" from reading right-wing propaganda emails and other missives in recent weeks and months?
I have learned Joe Biden should be impeached because he is a traitor and perhaps mentally incompetent. Biden and Kamala Harris hate America and are responsible for every "crisis" from Afghanistan to "the border" and the overall downfall of American society. "Critical race theory" is the equivalent of the Taliban. "Liberals," Democrats and other "America-haters" should be dealt with by "patriots."