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.
The other thing to remember is #WeTriedToTellThem ALL of this shit was gonna happen (all over again) but HELL NO. This is yet another consequence of MAGAts who have both a death wish and outsized influence on every single public/private system in 🇺🇸 running the asylum. 🤡👹👺🦊
Adding this here b/c it’s really important that we also recognize how the toxic/violent masculinization of GOP women voters also extends to #MAGAWoman elected officials. They’ve created an army of Ashli Babbitts who aid/abet the radicalization of their menfolk & themselves. 👹🤡
By now we’ve seen too many GOP/GOP adjacent mothers/wives/girlfriends either completely “overlook” the extremism in their midst or actively enable and facilitate the obstinance/defiance and evasion of consequences that leads to White, right wing domestic terrorism. #VanillaISIS
The thing that really chaps my hide about it is I’ve heard Republicans vilify Black family values & label us criminals/social deviants my whole life, yet here they are breeding & grooming the most PROLIFIC White domestic terrorists America’s ever seen and the NARRATIVE is SILENT.
PSA🚨: The White American majority has been voting GOP for the last ~60 YEARS, ever since LBJ signed the Civil/Voting Rights Acts. This is *readily Googleable* info and it’s bordering on a dereliction of basic American citizenship for SO MANY folk to STILL not know this FACT.
We’re in the “she’s Black and talks about race/gender and the scourges of White supremacy in America” aka INTENSE category, so @TwitterSupport decided Y’ALL don’t need or deserve to see what we have to SAY #onhere. 🔥💣💅🏾
Nah, this pre-dates the new CEO. It started somewhere between ‘18-20 for me. My follow count had a pretty precipitous rise well into the 1st year of the DT apocalypse but by ‘18 there was a very obvious pause & I started noticing the “unfollow on my behalf w/out consent” fuckery.
But in complete fairness, I haven’t 100% hated it. 🙃🤭 Despite the subject matter of my content, I really do encounter relatively few MAGA or alt-left trolls and bots. It’s a double edged sword because I want y’all to see my tweets too but I also want to do it in PEACE. 🤷🏾♀️