The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer
They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵
2/ "The increasingly dire, near-death experience of American democracy has felt like the proverbial frog in boiling water, as the heat of a shockingly popular U.S. brand of authoritarianism gets turned up one degree at a time. But in 2023 the far right’s embrace of autocracy has finally reached full boil. And the splatters of this dangerous caldron are burning our fundamental moral values in unexpected ways and the most unlikely places."
@GottaLaff People who torture metaphors ought to choose the right ones: frogs in water of gradually increasing temperature jump out long before it boils.
@12thRITS @GottaLaff This might be why op included the word "proverbial". (This sentence is like the one sentence in the entire OP that I don't have a problem with. 😂 )
