Thread by @JuliusGoat

Amazing to note that the 38.2%—perhaps the most over-represented people in the history of democracy—are furious, driven almost entirely by resentment that they are the oppressed ones: forgotten, neglected, and downtrodden.

Fascists only believe in the existence of themselves.

https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1360704888704016387

The more our country tries to free itself from white supremacy, the more the structures designed to preserve and entrench white supremacy, such as the Senate and the Electoral College, begin to present themselves.

It's worth noting this distinction—though the % of people supporting Trump nationwide is also approximately 40%, and Republicans very clearly represent only those people.

So, entrenched white supremacy isn't an exact system but it takes care of its own.

https://twitter.com/melvillean/status/1360933323841830912?s=20

So Josh Hawley for example, is very clearly only representing white supremacist voters, not all Missouri's voters. He's elected by enough Missouri voters to send him to the Senate—a structure designed to ensure that Josh Hawley is able to represent only white supremacist voters.

If you are a white supremacist, you're represented by every Republican Senator, no matter your state.

If your state's Senators are Republicans and you aren't a white supremacist, you aren't represented by them, despite your shared state.

The Senate is working as designed.

If the Senate isn't designed to do this, then why is it doing it, and why does there seem to be no way to stop it from doing that?

A machine that doesn't work falls apart.

I have to conclude the Senate is doing what it was intended to do.

Sure. But it's telling, isn't it, that the first act of any Senate with an anti-racist supermajority would have to be to reconstruct the Senate so that the Senate no longer operated as an obstructionist backstop to cater to a white supremacist minority.

https://twitter.com/melvillean/status/1360935406246584320?s=20