Except for all intents/purposes, VA *was* TX not too long ago. The 2021 Gubernatorial election set back over a decade of hard-won progress by VA Democrats. It can happen in ANY historically or recently “blue” state at the drop of a dime, if enough White voters DEFECT/vote GOP. 🥴
If his campaign was so “terrible”, why is this whole thread about how *White women specifically* are the voters who defected from the D coalition b/c they were swayed by anti-CRT propaganda (#SouthernStrategy101) to vote for the Klan, for the umpteenth time? 🤷🏾♀️ #MakeItMakeSense
Seriously, when are folk finally get tired of making these CYA excuses for the bigotry, ignorance, and gullibility of White women (and men) voters?! Wouldn’t it just be easier to admit that the majority of the White electorate can’t be trusted to not vote for fascism/the GOP? 🧐
I’ve seen them trot out this “he/she ran a terrible campaign” nonsense every time a Republican cruises to victory on the 💪🏻 of the White electorate’s Pavlovian response to GOP race-baiting. 😒 They said it about Hillary, Wendy, Beto, Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, Carter & McGovern too.
Did *ALL* of these White Democrats run “terrible campaigns” with “terrible messaging” or is the White American majority in MOST red states just viciously opposed to White allyship & highly susceptible to racist/sexist/xenophobic/religious fundamentalist/science denialist TROPES?!
Don’t even FOX 🦊 your mouth to tell me any state’s White majority voted R b/c “Ds ran a terrible campaign” without *also* telling me why the fascist, sociopathic, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, greedy, ignorant & violent GOP somehow isn’t terrible to them. Just STOP it.
Better yet, since we’re reliving the same pathology (and it’s been so long that the original links no longer work), I’m gonna repost all the #InstabilityInChief essays I wrote @dailykos for posterity’s sake…
'He tells it like it is:' The privileged politics of personal insult | via @docrocktex26 dailykos.com/stories/2016/1…
Wake me when the folk who are feigning shock, awe and poutrage about Trump doing all the heinous shit he said he was gonna do direct their complaints to the MSM that propagandized them blind (b/c they wanted to be) and is still enabling/sugarcoating fascism/White supremacy.
I mean this in all sincerity b/c I have yet to see a concerted, large scale effort to boycott or even regulate the legacy media outlets that paved the way for social media outlets to finish off the bamboozlement of the masses they started *centuries* ago. Where’s the revolution?
I repeat, “America incentivizes brainwashing of the White community,” so there’s no amount of scattering to new social media apps that’s gonna stop the newspapers or Big 3 TV from peddling bullshit that trickles down. Speak with your WALLETS and starve White supremacy of GREEN.
Let me address this now (again) b/c folk keep asking: NO I’M STILL NOT opening an account on any other social media platform. Y’all are asking this of a Black, native Texan woman whose entire family tree is Black native Texan. *I don’t flee for the Confederacy’s benefit.*
Y’all can feel free to do what sits right in your spirit but I’m not scared of a damn tweet. I walk around IRL as a Black woman knowing full well that my gracefully unbothered existence in spaces racists don’t want me in is an act of civil disobedience, protest & radicalism.
Not only that but what point is even being proven right now other than a real time illustration of how easy and uncomplicated it was (still is) for certain folk to flee to bluer, “safer” territory for the Confederacy’s benefit while the space they fled becomes more Confederate?
1 more blast from the past since folk still can’t do math or handle the truth. Ds are still contending with #WeakAssUnreliableAllies who “swing” in & out of the ⛺️ on a whim based on White/White adjacent grievance every 2-4 yrs and make maintaining a winning coalition impossible.
Matter of fact, miss me with the feigned confusion altogether b/c it’s BEEN plain as fucking day that culture wars are all the GOP has left and that WW (specifically) were/are susceptible to said wars to the extent that their bigotry is superseding their woman/motherhood.
After years of xenophobic klan sentiment on the GOP campaign trail, the El Paso shooter drove ~10 hrs to gun down Hispanic Texans on White supremacy/nationalism’s behalf. The anti-Haitian rhetoric propagated by Trump/Vance/MAGA isn’t just a hateful lie, it’s stochastic terrorism.
Nobody gets to pretend the writing hasn’t been on the wall since Birtherism and Trump’s promise to build a wall but make Mexico pay for it. They tell us to “remember the Alamo” but expect us to forget El Paso, Buffalo, Pittsburgh (Tree of Life) and the Atlanta spa shootings.
I don’t wanna hear shit else about Trump or the GOP “toning down their rhetoric” when the volume of the klan rally’s been at 💯 since 9/11 which is technically only a slight uptick from what they’ve been doing to Indigenous, Black and Brown people on American soil for CENTURIES.