Entire cities policies have been upended and made more brutal for a generation driven largely off the rhetoric and media fueled fears of a stranger approaching a voter in a “dark alley.”
It was only natural that the televised images of the late spring / summer of 2020, coupled with a party leader…
…and sitting president profusely telling Americans it was OK and political preferable to want to murder rioters and smash protesters, would lead to a turbo charge of already highly reactionary and revanchist ideology.
We’re gonna be living with the effects of that for at least a generation, and…
One of the kindest people I've met (at least that I thought) talked about how she thought protesters who did so on the highways deserved to be run over. I was shocked. But I think I did not anticipate how racist she might actually be, and she just let it out.
