One of the hardest parts of politics is explaining to people how fascists think because it's so stupid and disconnected from reality people have trouble believing it.

And since the fascists are mostly white, they receive endless benefit of the doubt and the belief that some evil pied piper like Trump must have misled them somehow.

"They're not bad people."

They're bad people.

@gwynnion
I know she's a little *among us noise* but Natlie "contrapoints" latest video has a take she mentioned, where there's a paternalist vs maternalist split in thinking... except they also have a really fucked up internal model of what a father is as well. That the government is supposed to only punish people, and do not a whole lot else.