Until we reckon with our true national spirit, which is Donald J. Trump, we cannot kill the movement behind him because that IS America, in a very literal sense.
In the same way as if you’re a woman who voted voluntarily for a man explicitly campaigning on policies that will harm you, you fucked up.
He is half of this country. That is a very important distinction.
A system's purpose is what it does, and our system makes Trumps on an industrial scale. Almost every boy in America goes through a phase, at least, of wanting to be Trump: to be rich, so goddamn rich that he can do anything he wants and just pay it off, and a distressing number of them never grow out of it, and to be clear, that is a rational response. They have witnessed firsthand with their eyes, in their movies, in the world around them, by virtue of who wins, that Trumps win. All you have to do is talk smooth, accept no responsibility, assert your dominance over reality itself over and over and over, and our system will, far more often than not, reward you handsomely.
This world would be a lot better off with less generalizing and stereotyping all 'round.
You've tried twice. America has rejected your ideology, your violence, and your warmongering.
Republicans calling Democrats warmongers is probably one of those hypocritical things I'm seeing in recent years.
The republican party is now maga, they are not the same
the maga base has been pretty consistent on being antiwar
LOL. Red states have the highest firearm death rates:
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-death-rat...