Thread by @AmoneyResists

To people claiming we “only oppose _______ because we hate Trump”

1. Our hatred of Trump is not something we are ashamed of. He EARNED it by being a loathsome racist traitor who told over 30K lies; CAGED INFANTS; TRAUMATIZED AMERICA; & KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of us.

2. But this does NOT determine if we oppose/support things. We have this ability to actually separate our justified contempt for the psychopathic criminal that used to occupy the WH and still come to rational objective conclusions like taking sheep dewormer for COVID is moronic.

3. This was Trump’s ultimate gaslight (lie); which was that if you disagreed with him on something, it was because you must “hate him” or be biased in some way. His supporters (literal cultists) even coined the term “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to dismiss our concerns as biased.

4. The irony is that any sane rational objective American SHOULD completely and utterly despise Trump & his administration for every atrocity he committed in our name that we will be dealing with the fallout from for generations. If you still SUPPORT him, THERE’S your derangement

5. The right loves to equate our *justified* hatred with Trump for his unspeakable inhumanity, criminality, vulgarity, cruelty, and literal DECIMATION of our nation with their unjustified & despicable hatred of people on the basis of sex, race skin color, sexual orientation, etc.

6. I have had so many genuinely kind good-hearted people come to me and say, as if confessing the most heinous of sins, “Can I tell you something? I utterly LOATHE that man.” My response? “YOU SHOULD!” This is not a character flaw. It’s ok to loathe people who are 100% loathsome.