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Trump was the catalyst.
He represented to many people a key figure in an historic narrative and that created a massive divide with passions running high.
He exaggerated this due to his nature.
We can't escape that.
But without him, the hysteria will continue.
Its not Trump.
He represented to many people a key figure in an historic narrative and that created a massive divide with passions running high.
He exaggerated this due to his nature.
We can't escape that.
But without him, the hysteria will continue.
Its not Trump.
Since before Bush, but in my lifetime the left has obsessed over the coming white supremacist Christian fascism.
I read Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming in college and felt fear looking at the Christians around me.
This has been their driving force.
Trump was the icon.
I read Michelle Goldberg's Kingdom Coming in college and felt fear looking at the Christians around me.
This has been their driving force.
Trump was the icon.
They *believe* he was the fascist dictator they feared for decades.
Everything about him validates this. It built up into a constant state of hysteria for 4 years.
Remember.
They suffered anxiety and depression. They cried. They panicked. They genuinely feared for humanity.
Everything about him validates this. It built up into a constant state of hysteria for 4 years.
Remember.
They suffered anxiety and depression. They cried. They panicked. They genuinely feared for humanity.
On the other side Trump appealed to the movement of people on the right who were radicalized by 9/11, felt targeted and suppressed by Obama and felt they had no place in a PC liberal world.
They became trolls. Instigators. Seeking controversy and edgy commentary to rebel.
They became trolls. Instigators. Seeking controversy and edgy commentary to rebel.
The remaining factions of real white supremacists out there, real neo-Nazis, real KKK latched onto these people. The more they were banned the more they collected in the same groups of 'us' vs. 'THEM.'
People who may never have been racist became white power activists in spite.
People who may never have been racist became white power activists in spite.
The majority have been suppressed into the underground, rejected by the right and the left after the great alt-right purges.
They further radicalized and viewed Trump as their secret weapon to take back society from the left and the *equally hateful* groups celebrated there.
They further radicalized and viewed Trump as their secret weapon to take back society from the left and the *equally hateful* groups celebrated there.
Trump became an icon of their resistance.
They worshipped him.
They idolized him.
They convinced themselves to sacrifice their lives and futures for him.
They worshipped him.
They idolized him.
They convinced themselves to sacrifice their lives and futures for him.
Trump's loss was portrayed, by Trump, as the culmination of years of Democrat-championed targeting of him, which we all watched and acknowledged. He exploited this.
They believed they had to act to save Trump just like ANTIFA and BLM believed they had to act to stop Trump.
They believed they had to act to save Trump just like ANTIFA and BLM believed they had to act to stop Trump.
This is not isolated.
Its not as simple as 'white supremacists vs. America.'
This has been a reality of our political environment for decades building to this.
The extremists on both sides have defined this conversation for all of us for too long.
Its not as simple as 'white supremacists vs. America.'
This has been a reality of our political environment for decades building to this.
The extremists on both sides have defined this conversation for all of us for too long.
