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Republicans Keep Talking About Low Faith in Our Institutions
This is like a drug dealer complaining about discarded needles at his kid’s park
Everywhere you go, they are carrying on about how “weak our institutions are.” They talk loudly in lines, not as much as they used to, but you can still hear their snide remarks. They are constantly posting about it. Like-minded Trumpists will signal each other with comments like, “Well, if we don’t stop them, soon we all will be speaking Spanish.”
Trumpists are racists. Maybe most of them that put him into office weren’t, but the core, the Trump-supporter who was MAGA before MAGA was a thing, is racist. My brother, for example, has been a racist his whole life, and when Trump won, his fantasies were on their way to being fulfilled. In 2016, our institutions were healthy and strong except for one: the U.S. Congress. Republicans have whittled away at the sanctity of this storied body for decades, and with the election of Barack Obama, they — Mitch McConnell — decided to put an end to the legitimacy of Congress.
By 2016, with the right-wing takeover of SCOTUS underway, America entered into its darkest period when Donald Trump declared war on our nation’s institutions. People don’t understand that the caprice of politics and the continued, steady, not-so-flashy…
