Not to downplay the utter loathsomeness of the far right, but this is neither new nor important.
They’ve been banging that “DEI hire” drum for months (years?) now, and yes - there’s a segment of the population that responds to it. But those people don’t matter in the slightest. They’re already Trump voters and they’ll never be anything else, so they can and should be entirely ignored.
Somewhere along the way here, the Republicans, and likely Trump himself, are going to hand us some vivid and grotesque and new and juicy example of their deep and abiding and utterly hateful racism and/or sexism, and at that point, we don’t want to be the party who cried wolf - the people who have pointed fingers of racist/sexist accusation so many times that it just seems like yet more of the same tired rhetoric when we point to that one.
Just cool your jets, let the old and weak ones slide, and wait. The time for truly effective righteous indignation will come.
Not to downplay the utter loathsomeness of the far right, but this is neither new nor important.
They’ve been banging that “DEI hire” drum for months (years?) now, and yes - there’s a segment of the population that responds to it. But those people don’t matter in the slightest. They’re already Trump voters and they’ll never be anything else, so they can and should be entirely ignored.
Somewhere along the way here, the Republicans, and likely Trump himself, are going to hand us some vivid and grotesque and new and juicy example of their deep and abiding and utterly hateful racism and/or sexism, and at that point, we don’t want to be the party who cried wolf - the people who have pointed fingers of racist/sexist accusation so many times that it just seems like yet more of the same tired rhetoric when we point to that one.
Just cool your jets, let the old and weak ones slide, and wait. The time for truly effective righteous indignation will come.
Just because they’re going to be more horrible in the future doesn’t mean we should get used to the horrors of today.