Interesting reading these thoughtful threads on #USPolitics the same day that worked through a document set on the KKK in the US in the 1920s. On Evangelicals and Trump
https://sciences.social/@brooklynsoc/111987433747682457
Then @chargrille on fascisms in the US.
I think threads like those give too much credit to Trump as having any particular ideology at all. And that is really important because it kind of ends up playing into the very rhetoric it wants to expose and attack.
Briefly, the stuff that Trump vomits out of his mouth on a daily basis is just chaos that his supporters interpret whatever way they want to. They perceive him as supporting their cause when really he's just throwing out ink blots and letting them interpret them however they wish.
We shouldn't say that he's running a campaign to appeal to that kind of voter, because he's not. We should emphasize to everybody that he's not appealing to those voters to emphasize to those voters that he's not actually on their side.
This kind of thread ends up being sort of self predicting. By emphasizing the myth that Trump is appealing to those voters, those voters end up voting for him, so the thread itself is generating that support.
And we would not even be in this position if we never went down these roads in the first place.
We should always have emphasized what a loser Trump is, how he failed his own supporters, and then he would have been relegated to the dustbin, or jail.
