Thread by @RadioFreeTom

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric What I'm telling you is that we *know*. It's not that complicated. And that minority of people better get their asses in gear and start learning about what makes *the rest of us* tick.

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric Dennis, when you say "it behooves to be deeper in our understanding," you say this as if the Trump cult is some unique tribe that requires our compassion and understanding, and not exactly what they are telling us they are. /1

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric But more to the point, why is it always a plea for *us* to understand *them*? Why is it always one way? Why is there never a plea - or demand - to people in rural Indiana to say: "Listen, you better start understanding the 100 million Americans who aren't like you."

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric I'm so f*cking tired of people going to rural Wisconsin like anthropologists on a field trip. Take those same people from Oshkosh and put them on a bus to Boston or LA and say: "You better learn about these people. They're your fellow citizens and they way outnumber you." /3x

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric And just to continue this rant a little more: These Trump voters did not spend a lot of time saying "You know, the inner cities are a mess, and people there seem desperate and unhappy. I wonder why. Maybe I should understand them more."

Instead, they said: F*ck those cities. /1

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric They didn't give a rat's ass if NYC melted through the earth's crust; in fact, they reveled in it. They went to see "Escape From New York" and snorted about how Real America was better.They didn't want to hear about the inner city, because that was a "culture" problem. /2

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric But now that poor whites apparently have the same "culture" problem that poor urban blacks did - persistent joblessness, unmarried moms, drugs - suddenly it's all national goddamn emergency because it's in Ohio instead of New York (which is doing just fine, now). /3

@dcherring @CaseyNikoloric Do you see why I'm not really interested in endless hand-wringing about the inherent niceness of people who never cared that much about million of their own fellow citizens and then voted for a cruel, stupid racist? I think their beliefs are pretty obvious. /4x