I know there are deeper material forces at play but for a large part the Trump movement really took wings because white America couldn’t handle Obama being president while black. And that’s just fucking incredible. Like if you peeled away all the layers of ignorance and racism they’ve accumulated you’d find ones labeled things like “Dijon mustard is gay and European” and “The Obamas got a dog that is gay and European” etc etc and there is a non-zero percent chance that the pebble that triggered the landslide of cheeseburgered fascism was shit like that.
When I die please extract my brain and stomp it through a colander in front of these people so they can have a visual metaphor for what the rest of us went through putting up with this stupid shit.
Trump became a true ‘political figure’ in a sense when he started saying Obama was born in Kenya and his birth certificate was fake, he saw how easily the racists will just believe whatever the fuck you say as long as it’s what they want to believe, and no other politician was willing to do it so openly. It is pretty amazing how much of the US’s entire history is driven by racism.
as an outsider, it was really puzzling, saying stuff like ‘obama divided us and destroyed the economy!’… no idea how that happened. obv he’s a pos war criminal, but the divided line getting repeated is so bizarre
The TEA Party movement was the reaction against Obama (also largely based on material forces), 6 years before Trump declared his candidacy. There might be some threads of it that were picked up by Trump, but a lot of it was just formerly disengaged anti-establishment sentiment. And also outright fascists. Lots of fascists.
I know there are deeper material forces at play but for a large part the Trump movement really took wings because white America couldn’t handle Obama being president while black. And that’s just fucking incredible. Like if you peeled away all the layers of ignorance and racism they’ve accumulated you’d find ones labeled things like “Dijon mustard is gay and European” and “The Obamas got a dog that is gay and European” etc etc and there is a non-zero percent chance that the pebble that triggered the landslide of cheeseburgered fascism was shit like that.
When I die please extract my brain and stomp it through a colander in front of these people so they can have a visual metaphor for what the rest of us went through putting up with this stupid shit.
Trump became a true ‘political figure’ in a sense when he started saying Obama was born in Kenya and his birth certificate was fake, he saw how easily the racists will just believe whatever the fuck you say as long as it’s what they want to believe, and no other politician was willing to do it so openly. It is pretty amazing how much of the US’s entire history is driven by racism.
Funniest part is that hillary started the birther shit in her run against obama in '08 lmao
Gay AND European? you say?
Legally Blonde musical is 10/10
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
as an outsider, it was really puzzling, saying stuff like ‘obama divided us and destroyed the economy!’… no idea how that happened. obv he’s a pos war criminal, but the divided line getting repeated is so bizarre
He did the same things as every other American President. And yet he “divided us”. How? Oh, well there was one difference I suppose you can point to…
The TEA Party movement was the reaction against Obama (also largely based on material forces), 6 years before Trump declared his candidacy. There might be some threads of it that were picked up by Trump, but a lot of it was just formerly disengaged anti-establishment sentiment. And also outright fascists. Lots of fascists.