Well Excuuuse Me

There’s a whole industry of political consultants and media figures making hay by relentlessly scolding Dems (and random people online who get conflated with Dems) for causing all of this, while billionaires flagrantly destroy our institutions and Trump voters embrace ever more extreme positions. The truth is that the right has long been an engine of demonizing liberals, while simultaneously portraying liberals as the abusers. It’s the “Always Blame the Left” strategy: “We can get ever more abusive and scolding and threatening, but if you say anything bad about us at all, then you are the problem.” And so it becomes a self-defeating doom loop, this attempt to solve the problem of fascism by insulting the very people trying to fight it. The idea that if “the left” just stopped saying x, y, or z then the right would stop getting more extreme and politics would go back to normal again is just completely absurd.

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