President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Latrobe, Pa., on Sept. 3, 2020. Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Allegations of involuntary hysterectomies conducted on people in a migrant detention center? Record numbers of children going to bed hungry ? The revelation that President Donald Trump sat on his hands upon learning that Russia paid bounties to kill American soldiers? It’s futile to pinpoint when exactly Trump’s America left the community of civilized peoples. It’s more important and useful to explain how we kid ourselves about the fascist impulses of his “ordinary” supporters that hide in plain sight. Under some delusion, many Democrats and liberals have expected each new whistleblower’s report, each insider’s memoir to expose Trump’s corruption so shockingly, so unequivocally, as to make his supporters see the light. But the sooner these politicos understand that Trump’s supporters don’t care about his autocracy, the better the liberals can go about the business of trying to win this election. Just pay attention to the urgent MSNBC, NPR, and New York Times exposés on each incriminating revelation into Trump’s misconduct or read the liberal nonprofit industrial complex’s battery of watchdog reports, and you […]
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