(April 15, 2024 at 7:44 am)arewethereyet Wrote: I simply cannot comprehend how people can listen to Trump and come to the conclusion that he's their guy.
There are crackheads on the corners in shady parts of cities who routinely make more sense.
Probably because it's right out there on the surface, and easily missed when we set out to find some other underlying cause or meaning. White separatists know he's their guy because he talks about their guys. Trump affirms identitarian whiteness openly and often. I think it might be the only thing he does as consistently as crime.
Tying this into thumps comments - and if we remember that lee is the human prototype for the lost cause revisionism of the civil war, they are having a real intimate moment with him, despite the rally settings. It's not about it being unfair to hold lee in disfavor, it's about it being unfair to hold them in disfavor. I'd say it's equally fair and also uncomfortable to do both - which is why The Whites are wilding out in the first place.
The uncomfortable thing for us is to just let it be what it so clearly is. I know that we imagine that the trumpists can't all be white separatists. I suppose in a way that doesn't matter that's probably true. Maybe they aren't in it for the white separatism......but if so....it's still something they'd take along with whatever else they think a trump presidency will get them. In that context, those who (at least publicly) mount their trumpism on kitchen table issues have been bought more cheaply than any of the rest of that basket of deplorables. Facilitating a new confederacy over the price of a gallon of gas.
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