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Azari argues that🚨Trump, like A Johnson & Nixon before him *predecessors made major advs for African-Ams, became pres in part bc of white backlash against the pro-Black accomplishments of his predecessor.
Combatting Trumpism,🚨requires recognizing the racial nature of his support. In the cases of Johnson, Nixon, &Trump, #democracy declined. Fighting MAGA will involve fighting anti-Black #Racism.
#Envy: a capital sin *other sins can spring -even #murder -Pope, 6C.
#USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/204841/america-still-living-backlash-obama-presidency
DEEP MEDi x Hit & Run x OVERVIEW @ Hidden - 06 Feb feat. Kyrist, EN:VY, T-Man (UK)

A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111
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Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in…