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In reply to the discussion: Sure Hillary Made Mistakes But The Election Was Still Fraudulent & Stolen We Damned Well Know It. [View all]handmade34
(22,758 posts)what you say ...and this must read article by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"... so the most powerful country in the world has handed over all its affairsthe prosperity of its entire economy; the security of its 300 million citizens; the purity of its water, the viability of its air, the safety of its food; the future of its vast system of education; the soundness of its national highways, airways, and railways; the apocalyptic potential of its nuclear arsenalto a carnival barker who introduced the phrase grab em by the pussy into the national lexicon...
The American tragedy now being wrought is larger than most imagine and will not end with Trump. In recent times, whiteness as an overt political tactic has been restrained by a kind of cordiality that held that its overt invocation would scare off moderate whites. This has proved to be only half true at best. Trumps legacy will be exposing the patina of decency for what it is and revealing just how much a demagogue can get away with. It does not take much to imagine another politician, wiser in the ways of Washington and better schooled in the methodology of governanceand now liberated from the pretense of antiracist civilitydoing a much more effective job than Trump.
It has long been an axiom among certain black writers and thinkers that while whiteness endangers the bodies of black people in the immediate sense, the larger threat is to white people themselves, the shared country, and even the whole world. There is an impulse to blanch at this sort of grandiosity. When W. E. B. Du Bois claims that slavery was singularly disastrous for modern civilization or James Baldwin claims that whites have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white, the instinct is to cry exaggeration. But there really is no other way to read the presidency of Donald Trump. The first white president in American history is also the most dangerous presidentand he is made more dangerous still by the fact that those charged with analyzing him cannot name his essential nature, because they too are implicated in it."