Thread by @gwensnyderPHL

Liberals are bending themselves into pretzels already trying to find a way to make it seem like fascism is our rearview mirror

https://twitter.com/rachelsklar/status/1324721542677385216

I'm not trying to be mean, but this is deeply unhelpful rhetoric that helps reinforce a narrative about getting back to "who we are," as if we weren't already a proto-fascist white supremacist patriarchy long before Trump ever so much as signed up for a Twitter account.

I get it, we all want this nightmare to be over.

But, it's a nightmare that has been going on for some people for a very long time.

This isn't a repudiation of white supremacy or fascism, because Biden doesn't represent a repudiation of white supremacy or fascism.

Biden, at best, represents polite compromise on fascism and a return to a political establishment that avoids blatant racism but still very much upholds structural racism.

And even that return to a more polite and moderated embrace of oppression didn't receive a mandate at the polls.

Listen, I canvassed for Biden and told people to vote for him and worked the polls, but, real talk?

There's no repudiation here.

We haven't earned that claim.