Thread by @RachelBitecofer

1. America's 1st fascist pres will host his anti-democracy rally of neo-nazis, KKK asshats, white nationalists, fascists, conspiracy theorists, bigots, xenophobes, & polite racists at 11am.

The day before I'll release a pod on The Cycle-On Substack which will be a convo

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1345088187811700748

2. with physician and sociologist @JonathanMetzl whose book Dying of Whiteness How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland presents several years of research to support his thesis that many white Americans are embracing white racial grievance politics (&

3. its accompanying policies) even when those policies make them poorer, less healthy, and even shortens their life spans. ANYTHING is better than that socialism stuff, after all. Metzl finds much of white voter obstince stems from the bostonreview.net/race/jonathan-…

4. the fact that in order to help themselves, they have to be willing to help others & since those "others" include racial minorities & improving the lives of minorities, which these white voters see as undermining their "superior" position in the social hierarchy (what Isabella

5. Williamson would correctly ID as caste. Yes, those are sarcasm quotes!) They'd rather die from liver disease (well, at least while it's theoretical) than vote to expand Medicaid & see "illegals" (more sarcasm quotes) get "their" (yep, sarcasm again) $ for free health care 🙄

6. I'm also excited to add that in the evening (btw, this will be Tues evening, the night of the GA Senate Runoffs!) while we're all waiting on returns, I'll be holding a live Q & A with Johnathan for paid subscribers to The Cycle-On Substack about the podcast, his research, &

7. Trump's efforts to rile up his base to protest his DEMOCRATIC LOSS on Jan 6th at what should be a completely unnoticed formality in Congress! The live Q&A Zoom event will run from 6pm-7pm. All paid subscribers will auto receive an email with an invite & link for the event (as

8. of 3pm Tues. Jan. 5th). Each sign-in will be verified by matching your screen name to your registered email.Good times! If you haven't read it, I def recommend Johnathan's book!

amazon.com/Dying-Whitenes…