re: #61 Blind Frog Belly White

I think without Trump, they’d be far more restrained, and the divisions would not be as deep. Trump appealed to every single part of their pathology - not just racism, sexism, anti-intellectualism and xenophobia, but boiling resentment at being called out on their racism, sexism, anti-intellectualism and xenophobia. He told them that all the racist, sexist, anti-intellectual and xenophobic things they thought were not only not BAD, but that they weren’t racist, sexist, anti-intellectual and xenophobic.

They love him because he encourages and justifies every single bad impulse they have, and he didn’t speak in coded language. No other Republican leader would have done that, so no other Republican leader would have empowered them like that.

That’s probably mostly true. But I also wouldn’t be surprised a Clinton presidency would have resulted Steve King somehow becoming a legitimate 2020 contender.

I think we are just at a point in history where this is all coming to a head again. We slipped in 2016, but we can still prevail this year and in 2020.