As I’m the regular poster most prone to making comments highlighting the fact that this bastardry has a history much longer than just the Trump presidency, allow me to make one thing clear:
My point is not “Obama did it too, therefore it’s okay that Trump does it”. Nor is my point to pretend that there has not been an escalation of evil in the Trump era.
My point, which I think is pretty fucking obvious when my posts are read in context, is: this is unacceptable now, and it was unacceptable then too.
And the implication of this is that “let’s just return things to normal, back to how they were before Trump” or “vote blue no matter who” is a grotesquely inadequate response to the situation.
Trump is the symptom, not the disease.
There are substantial numbers of people on Twitter and other places right now making that exact argument, without the sarcasm.
