Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is
“Oh Trump is a conman, he’s pulling the wool over peoples eyes” Yeah to some degree, but the main core reason he was President and might well be President again is a lot of people fucking love being racist
i think a big part of this is people thinking folks believe in racism as some kind of philosophical position and it’s not, it is a pleasure, a thrill. folks don’t just believe in racism, they get off on it, and that’s a different kind of attachment than most the rest of us have to our politics
