Thread by @JoshuaCypess

1/ I've seen 4 different populations when it comes to Trump (ym'sh):

(a) 2 who deny he's going to act on his terrible impulses & words

(b) those who take him as a serious threat & prepare

(c) those who act like he's already won

Group C need to stop panicking. I get it tho.

2/ I hope to be in group B, preparing for the eventualities w/a clear head.

But it's the first 2 that are interesting. They consist of (a) those who deny he'll do what he threatens & when he carries it out are appalled vs. (b) those who are fine with the result of his bad acts

3/ These 2 groups can be on the literal-thinking spectrum, but also just naïve, or just emotionally incapable of recognizing that Trump (ym'sh) is trying to be a fascist dictator

But when his threats materialize, a majority of Americans have shown they hate it and him

4/ This is key: many people who thought "he can't be THAT bad" in 2016 are finding out that our warnings turned out to be true. He's a murderous nut.

When they are confronted with the reality, they reject it. That's why he's on track to lose by 1980 numbers

5/ However there's a group of denialists who find out that the unimaginable future they scoffed at happening is actually pretty nice. They are not sick (yet), they got a tax cut (maybe, not here in NJ I can tell you), they got feral brutes as judges

They're OK with the new rules

6/ It's the first group of denialists that are reacting so strongly and who I'm depending on to save us with their votes in Nov. Because while I expected this to happen, they DID NOT. And my disgust in 2016 is what they feel right now.

7/ Putting it frankly, many white people had no idea how bad non-white people were treated in America. And Trump (ym'sh) has been treating white people like Black people this entire year. My fellow whites are NOT LIKING THAT ONE BIT

We don't expect to have our votes thrown away

8/ Whites don't expect to have police shoot us in the face with rubber bullets when we express our displeasure. This is what I'm seeing: the support for #BLM is a sign white people are finally seeing that being treated as Black person is terrible

9/ The GOP, however, has discovered that they kinda like being the party in charge. They like being Members of the Party, wearing red hats instead of brown shirts.

So far, as far as I've seen, there's not enough of that group of people to outnumber the rejectors.

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