"Trump was the candidate of backlash, and will once again be the president of backlash. ...
You have watched the world shift around you, feeling more angry and alienated by the day, but now Trump will give you back what was taken from you by the tectonic motions of social change."
~ Paul Waldman
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-united-states-of-backlash
"Or if he can’t give it back to you, if nothing else he can make those who took it from you feel some pain. The backlash will be your new reality, and it will be its own reward."
If "they" get rights, that means I'm losing rights, no? If women and Black people attain rights, then I lose rights as a white male, doesn't it? It means I'm under attack as a white male….
The underlying logic of MAGA….
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"This Trump-led effort to do nothing less than remake America as a totalitarian nation was not created overnight; it was the culmination of years (decades even) of steady effort, not just from the rich and powerful but also from many people who aren’t famous or wealthy or even particularly influential but have pushed for the dominance of their own gender or religion or race, and for the subjugation of others."
~ Jill Filipovic
"You don’t get a man like Trump in power without the consent — the enthusiasm — of a lot of 'average' people. And you don’t temper his worst efforts, or get him out, without the concentrated work of the rest of us."
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"It is in his executive order concerning birthright citizenship that Trump most clearly demonstrated his determination for white men to dominate the United States, and for Trump to dominate those men."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
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