If you watched the tea party's rise, you could see this coming. There was no rational reason to be that incensed over a Black man getting elected POTUS in the midst of a failed war and the Great Recession...other than the fact that said Black man's 'blackness' triggered them.
https://twitter.com/LPDonovan/status/1347919422300811274
At the end of the day, the root of Trumpism is America's long standing disease of racism. Racism for America is like herpes. It's flares up and subsides but it's always there. Too many white folks are simply oblivious to what people of color have always seen.
On the other hand, a lot of white folks do recognize that they see the world in racial zero sum terms and are perfectly ok with fascism as a choice instead of co-existence under a rule of law. Unity among all Americans doesn't exist for them unless they're undisputedly on top.
Still, for others, it's about opportunism, but even that is about exploiting the racial hierarchy for personal benefit and tacitly helping the racists reinforce the power structure.
Even now, more than half the House GOP caucus voted to reject valid election results based on a lie. That's all about racism. That's all about denying people of color legitimacy. Without racism, there is no Trumpism, period.
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