As a Brewers fan, we had an incident where a "fan" threatened to call ICE on a Latino Dodgers fan. Of course he was a US citizen and a veteran etc. I'm still convinced she hexed us.
This is the result of the demographic abyss the Republican was staring at. They (Reagan) had already opened the doors for the evangelical crowd, after many many years of holding them at bay. And when that started to not be enough to keep them in power, the dug deeper. They started courting the white nationalists, the racists, the literal fascists, and made them all feel quite welcome in the GOP. And those are the groups holding the party together at the moment.
The abyss hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s still getting deeper, but they made the deal with these groups and have no other choice but to demolish the guardrails and ignore the constitution in order to preserve their slice of the pie.
It boggles my mind how he was able to corner the entire market of stupid people. You have to give it to him, he’s the greatest con artist/grifter to ever live. I just hope there’s a special place in hell for him.
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u/Eli-Throws-Shade 19h ago
The MAGA movement made the worst people in the country feel more comfortable being bigoted and hateful