That’s a fantastic and occasionally hilarious article, thanks for linking!
If Obama were smart—and he is very smart—he would have treated Trump like an equal, and brought the discussion to a level that assumes far more of Trump than anyone has so far. Assumes that he’s an adult who’s been paying attention. Statistics, esoteric minutiae about the executive branch procedure, economic growth numbers, labor figures, domestic policies, countries Trump has never even heard of, shit that would never in a million years have been in Trump’s campaign soundbites or digestible summaries.
Yeah, older I get, more I realize a good many aren’t (older ones at least). This guy was though. He’s been living in Japan last decade and picked up a nasty case of judgemental christian over there.
I miss early 90’s anarcho peace punks, the kind nearly extinct in America but still thriving in Europe and S. America. Seems like street punks/oi/skins skew right. The older punks with kids and jobs seem to like the alt-right garbage because they need something safe to still feel ‘outsider’.
I apologize if it’s already been mentioned repeatedly, but Trump’s also chosen Ken Blackwell as his domestic policy chairman, a man as loathsome as anyone else named thus far. Ken heads the Family Research Council, a hate group on the far-right fringe whose goal is to promote Christianity as the “basis for society” and to work towards the elimination of homosexuality. He was also the key figure responsible for Bush’s election in 2004. As a former Ohioan, I know what a horrible human he is, and am terrified at the idea of his involvement.
This is what movement conservatism has become, just a long list of people to be afraid of.
The Mexicans are coming! The immigrants are coming! The Muslims are coming! The blacks are coming! The feminists are coming! The gun-grabbers are coming! The gays are (ahem) coming!
