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I thought this article was about his current rise, but this is referring to a stupid article that blames the anti-trumpers for trump's original rise. It's the fault of republicans and the people who voted for trump.

We need to get people to vote or we'll have a 2016 repeat and I think that's why we're hearing so much about how trump could still win, etc. He could if we don't vote.

But Brooks does not explain how exactly Democrats, liberals, or college-educated Americans—“we anti-Trumpers,” in his words—are responsible for the social and economic woes of Trump’s supporters. He disregards the good reasons why “we anti-Trumpers” have embraced a policy agenda that is kinder to, say, immigrants and trans people than has the opposition. And in a truly astounding omission, Brooks ignores a fact that threatens to derail his entire thesis: Trump and the GOP are fanatically committed to sustaining the systems of economic inequality and social immobility that Brooks blames for Trump’s rise. “We anti-Trumpers” are the ones backing policies that would mitigate it.

I wrote a diatribe on how this is a misunderstanding of Brooks’ point, and how it’s perception and not reality that matters when understanding the cultural shift in conservative hatred

Then I realized I was actually just agreeing with this article and that it really is simple and reductive: they just love to hate and their propaganda machine has expertly leveraged the explosion of communications tech to do that effectively. And that the biggest big money players have all the motive and opportunity in the world to collaborate on that propaganda.

So yeah it doesn’t matter if leftists use cringey jargon to signal their white saviorship to each other; that’s always been happening. What matters is the propagandization of everything by bad actors. What matters are literal fascists

I love how some cis liberals just automatically believe that conservatives are being honest when they say trans people’s existence and terminology are pushed by the educated elite as though a huge portion of gender theory didn’t originate with a bunch of factory workers and sex workers. The reason rural conservatives never heard about this stuff before is because they made it damn clear that every trans person in town better disappear to the city before they think to transition.

This is the answer to Trump's ride, as seen through the eyes of Lindsey Graham: https://specialto.thebulwark.com/p/the-corruption-of-lindsey-graham

Stop what you are doing and read this article. Seriously deep examination of Americans politics and the true cause of the divide we are witnessing.