I don’t know who first said this or where it originally appeared, but I’ve seen it referenced a couple of times in recent days, and I think it comes closer to anything I’ve heard to explaining why, win or lose, so many people will vote for Trump.
His life is a masterclass in white privilege. He can’t say enough racist things to be a racist. He can’t commit enough crimes to be a criminal. He can’t fail enough times to be a failure. He can’t say enough stupid things to be stupid. The idea of him overshadows any reality. The “Christian savior” who doesn’t know the Bible, the adulterer who fucks porn stars and steals from charities. It’s the promise of the protection of whiteness he represents.
The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, who’s been covering it from the start, has a pre-mortem for the Trump campaign, detailing the infighting surrounding the chaos-inducing candidate.
Have you heard about P’Nut the euthanized squirrel, who has become a rallying cry for desperate MAGAts? If not, Vox explains how a gay Only Fans model with a pet squirrel became an unlikely right-wing hero. Tl;dr: The story first appeared in the Murdoch-owned New York Post, which is so blatantly biased that even its own readers assume it only prints right-wing propaganda.
The Trump campaign fired someone for expressing white nationalist views, which I suppose is a lame attempt to deny the campaign’s blatantly white nationalist views. I’m only linking to this so you can see for yourself the sort of fine specimen who thinks that, because he shares a melanin level with some people of accomplishment, they together constitute a master race.
The floor’s yours.