Yeah, Pete is right.
There’s this thing where someone says something that’s been proven true as if it’s obviously ridiculous, as if simply scoffing at truth will disprove it.
Trump ran a white supremacist sexist platform and 63 million people voted for it.
Trump ran a white supremacist sexist platform and 63 million people voted for it.
Finding a non-racist reason to vote for a racist platform isn’t a non-racist act.
The revelation of 2016 isn’t that there aren’t 63 million racist Americans. It’s that racism is so pervasive that 63 million racists is the floor—so pervasive we *all* ought to do a searching moral inventory.
Trump is America telling on itself.
Trump is America telling on itself.
