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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
This is who we are as a nation.
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Hard agree. The biggest thing I have been wrong about is that there was a limit to Trump's base. I've stated countless times that Trump has his base, and its frighteningly large, but that Fox's fearmongering and Trumpism in general can only elevate so high... even questioning if the additional fearmongering of recent months could even possibly do anything to attract more support from the right, and that all this election was about is whether or not the left could care enough to come together to overwhelm those numbers and get him out.
In those statements is a clear belief that Trump's base is shockingly and saddeningly large, but limited in size and already at capacity, and we still have a large majority that is available to stand against that and say NO. On that, I was wrong. I have not yet begun to process what that means as far as my perception of human decency and humanity. I think I'm going to struggle to do that when the time comes, if I'm honest, in a somewhat dark and very real way.
No time for that right now though.