RE: https://newsie.social/@ZhiZhu/116243890125559864

It's official now. We've all suspected for a while, but I guess it's nice to finally have a formal diagnosis...

@Zebadiah_Carter We've known since the speech at the bottom of the golden escalator scapegoating immigrants and muslims for everything terrible, saying "I assume some of them are good people" as an aside. My southern friends continue to say everything will be fine despite his aim, and I continue to say to them, fuck off.

@RustedComputing absolutely agree, that's when a LOT of people knew where he was going.

I was alluding to the shift more broadly in US politics over the past 30-40 years or so. For me the other shoe dropped in 2014 when a Cambridge study concluded that the US was officially and formally an oligarchy.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

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