Since the day Sarah Palin called white conservatives “Real Americans,” I have been vociferously warning people about the danger of allowing that mindset to flourish & ossify.
What happened yesterday was the tantrum of people who believe they are the “real” Americans because they
are white, and that their will should always prevail for that very same reason.
The correlative to that is that all other Americans are “fake”
or “fraudulent,” and that our will is of no consequence.
This mindset in the right is what lead to everything, including Wednesday’s
sedition-fest.
It is this mindset that justifies voter suppression, gerrymandering, unequal policing and justice standards, ignoring Congressional acts from a Dem majority, and insisting that votes from black communities be thrown out.
At base, it’s white supremacist having a
meltdown hissy fit because they cannot accept that they aren’t the majority, and likely never will be again.
Their only gambit at power is to destroy the very concept of majority rule, and to enshrine control by the racist minority.
They worship Trump because he was the first
politician who made clear he would do whatever it takes to make that shift occur, mostly out of selfishness and personal greed, not zealous philosophical accord, but the result was the same.
They love Trump because he is their flavor of both ruthless and immoral.
We MUST
