Even before the pandemic there was a spate of white supremacist mass murders that happened in random places — malls, places of worship, garlic festivals — that has never happened before or since. This was, in hindsight, one guy’s fault. Uncovered as he’s a coin flip away from power in a month.
People's memories fade with time and they tend to remember just the good things. This is basically the nostalgia effect
Timing has become very strange. The news cycle imploding into smaller attention deficit slices. I believe if the ‘grab them by the’ tape had come out 3 weeks later the election might’ve been different. Or note how quickly we get over Presidential assassinations now.
One thing that Trump and Musk undoubtedly prove is there are simply no consequences in our legal framework for the white & ultra wealthy. WESLEY SNIPES will have served more jail time than either.
I've found watching the back episodes of last week tonight that are getting put on YouTube is a really helpful reminder of how bat shit crazy that time was.
Black men were getting lynched
Really? Never heard of manifest destiny? Or Jim Crow? Black Wall Street? Birmingham Baptist Church bombing? Literally America was a completely harmonious and racist free society until Orange Bad Man got into office? The United States IS WHITE SUPREMACIST AT ITS ROTTEN CORE.
My kids were in grammar and middle school. Bullies in school were suddenly triumphant and rampant. Nobody talks about this shift. And it was a SHIFT.
They've been killing a dozen a year for decades prior though.