Trump's rage-tweeting at @ThePlumLineGS's tweet about how Trump rage-tweets is a gorgeous dark gem, a perfectly-constructed oroboros of unfittness.
The fun thing about saying "Make America Great Again" is that there is literally no time in our past you can be referencing that wouldn't be more systemically unfair against all people who aren't white men. #MAGA
That's what I like about #MAGA is what a clarifier it is. It *has* to be understood as racist, sexist, ablest, and homophobic. There's no other way to understand it.
People of color, LGBT people, disabled people, and allies have no trouble understanding #MAGA for what it is.
Meanwhile it will take only a brief stroll through the twitter feed of anybody who uses it favorably to convince you that's how they understand it as well.
And in case you didn't get the message they staked their ideology symbolically precisely where you'd think.
Defending the perceived heroism of Robert E Lee.
There have been, I'm sure, other nations who have raised up men to fight for the cause of human enslavement. You just don't see statues angrily raised in their honor is all.
Donald Trump is personally offended at wealthy black athletes specifically because they so flagrantly refuse to be property when it seems so obviously proper to him that they should.
Donald Trump, I've realized, has a well-developed sense of right and wrong. It's just twisted into something both monsterous and identical to that of millions of white Americans.
Donald Trump, like many white Americans, finds it very offensive to his sense of right and wrong that black people should fail in their responsibility to be property.
Even worse to his sense of right and wrong is that black people, having been allowed to not be property by a benevolent white society, should ever fail to be grateful for this largesse.
"Make America Great Again" is a statement of morality, as clear as any creed or slogan ever devised.
As clear as "Blood and soil."
As clear as "One people, one country, one leader."
The person telling you to Make America Great Again is telling you exactly what they think is good and bad.
The person ignoring it is telling you they are willing to not care, because they think they will benefit from it.
Don't be afraid to offend such a person.
Don't fail to defend the people they are clearly informing you they intend to target.
Yesterday I posted a response to one of Trump nonsense tweets. (I know, I know. I'm weak.)
Turns out it was about 2 minutes after it had gone up, so it got seen. A lot.
The MAGA crowd had some ideas for me.
They all involved me and people who think like me effectively not existing.
"Leave the country" was popular.
"Kill yourself" had traction.
Some were just looking forward to a mass destruction.
It's what they want.
We should believe people who say "Make America Great Again" and we should translate it for them when they say it. So they know we know.
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