Fuck No, I Don't Want To Reach Across the Aisle to Trump Supporters
In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s presidential victory, some well-intentioned if deeply misguided souls encouraged leftists who might be inclined to take excessive pleasure in Trump’s downfall to think about how they felt when Hillary Clinton lost and not gloat.
Some even more misguided folks encouraged Leftists who might be experiencing dangerous emotions like “joy” and “happiness” and “hope for the future” to reach out to their friends who are Trump supporters with words of consolation and solidarity, like, I dunno, “I know you’re sad that Trump lost but I’m here, for you buddy, and know that you supported him out of economic insecurity and religious reasons and none of the reasons that Nazis love him.”
The response to these entreaties to think of the fragile feelings of American fascists can succinctly be summed up as, “Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.”
Many commenters pointed out that they will not be reaching out to their Trump supporter friends in their time of need because they don’t have any Trump supporter friends. I’m one of those people.
I don’t have too many friends to begin with and supporting Trump is definitely a deal-breaker. Now there are certain things you can disagree with people about and still remain friends. You can disagree about sports. You can disagree about movies. Hell, you can even disagree about whether or not Insane Clown Posse is a good group. But we cannot disagree on whether or not white supremacy should be the ruling ideology of our government and country and still be buddies. We can’t disagree on whether or not telling women of color who criticize societal iniquity to go back to the shithole countries they came from is racist or sexist and chalk it up to different strokes for different folks.
You’ve got to draw the line somewhere. I draw it at supporting a crazed hate-monger who has made demonizing minorities the core of his toxic cult of personality.
The idea that leftists must not get too publicly excited about Trump’s humiliating defeat out of a fear of hurting the tender feelings of the “fuck your feelings, snowflake” crowd epitomizes the weird combination of masochism, self-flagellation and deeply counter-productive self-righteousness behind so much Liberal rhetoric.
It’s this same maddening impulse that led the liberal Los Angeles Times to recently devote their entire “Letters to the editor” section to Trump supporters in the aftermath of Biden’s victory.
The idea that Trump voters are precious flowers with valuable insight that we must honor and appreciate lest we be considered out of touch elitists is fucking ridiculous. Trump supporters have spent the last five years angrily yelling their feelings and opinions and emotions on social media and in big rallies as stridently as their hero. The problem isn’t that we don’t know what these iconoclasts are thinking. If anything, I know way too much about how QAnon lunatics see the world.
In a semi-related development, Megyn Kelly responded to president-elect Joe Biden tweeting, “A nation united. A nation strengthened. A nation healed” with “Written like a man who’s been in his basement for a year.”
A full-on temper tantrum followed. Kelly was taking on all comers in a white-hot rage.
“You can be as angry as you want. But let’s not pretend after 4 yrs of bare knuckled, brutal, and grossly vicious brawling, now that your guy is ascending to the WH, it’s all over and “unity,” “healing,” peace, love & understanding bc ... memory” she tweeted in response to one of many critical tweets.
Kelly will NEVER forget the left’s unspeakable crime of portraying powerful figures like Kelly who blindly and masochistically back a racist, Islamophobic, sexist, white supremacist movement like Trumpism as people who support racism, sexism and white supremacy.
In Kelly’s world, to be correctly called racist is an infinitely greater sin than to actually be egregiously racist, and Mrs. Jesus and Santa Claus are Black and What’s the Big Deal About Blackface sure knows something about being egregiously racist.
What’s a little vicious misogyny between racists?
All that Megyn Kelly had to do to remain one of the richest, most powerful journalists in American history was be a little less racist, to hide her blinding hatred of black people just a little better. Of course that proved beyond her capabilities. Sooner or later, the Klan robe always slips out.
Racism is why Kelly risks what little is left of her reputation and credibility attacking a grandfatherly new president-elect for the unforgivable sin of encouraging national unity in a time of deep division and an unprecedented health crisis.
Kelly is so deeply invested in supporting white power and white supremacy that she’s able to overlook things like the president publicly insulting her and calling the media the Enemy of the People repeatedly, to the point where it quickly became one of his signature phrases.
The Enemy of the People! Gas-lighting is the most powerful man in the world spending years telling his followers that anyone who might report negatively on him is trying to destroy society at the behest of their evil media/Democratic overlords and then angrily demanding that the media co-sign that assessment if they agree with him politically the way Kelly does.
Gaslighting is acting like “bare knuckled, brutal, and grossly vicious brawling” is the media and Joe Biden’s doing and not the actions of a tinpot wannabe dictator who has made monkey-like screeching and infantile tantrums the cornerstones of his communication strategy.
Kelly is deluded enough to think that she’s operating from a position of strength by responding to a call for unity at a time of great uncertainty and peril with, “Fuck no, I prefer hatred and division and personal insults. It’s more honest and better for society ultimately. I’d much rather go with the guy who said he would destroy all the bad people on my behalf to someone who talks about healing and coming together sincerely.”
Joe wants to bring us together because that’s genuinely who he is, an avuncular grandpa type who legitimately wants us all to get along and is delusional enough to think that’s somehow possible in post-Trump America.
I don’t feel that way at all. Kelly just can’t stop being on the wrong side of history. The Left will never forget what Trump and his followers did between the years 2015 and 2020. Nor will we forgive bc…memory.
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