The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming

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4. And me, since the '92 election

I lived in Mi'ssippi at the time, and I can't overstate the feeling of sheer vindictiveness that swept GOPee voters after Clinton's victory that year - which for most of them was utterly unexpected.

As a southerner, Clinton was of course very familiar to most MS voters - but therein lay the problem: the white right-wingers saw him as a "n***er lover" in the mold of Jimmy Carter or Bill Moyers.

A 'southerner' in name only.

The Clinton victory - and the Lumpball/Faux News phenomenon - was practically a call to arms for Deep South Republicans. I knew a fairly important one at the time that threatened to kill him (Clinton) "if he went too far."

And that guy (since passed away) was one of the nicer ones!

Of course, this fanaticism is hardly limited to the South. One third of the country, I believe, is now fully radicalized.