Thread by @DrLisaCorrigan

I would like to tell you a story about America:

I wrote an essay in 2016 about how Bernie channeled white rage in a way that stole energy from Trump and short-circuited the fascist impulse among the mad-sad whites.

But the democratic party didn't choose to channel the mad-sad, it picked technocrat, nuance pantsuit lady.

And the mad-sad fascists multiplied under the incompetent narcissist tv fellow.

Politics is about dominance in a country full of fully armed mad-sad white people. That's racial and gendered.

Misreading this is a long-term problem. An inability to re-channel it into productive coalitions is the end of the democratic experiment.