Maggie Greene Rhee 🇺🇦🌻 #Roleplay@Hilltop__Leader
Just saw this posted on Reddit
He was not a candidate. He was a mirror.
If you were a racist, you'd found your guy.
If you were a misogynist, you'd found your guy.
If money was your only religion, you'd found your guy.
If your heart was armoured shut, you'd found your guy.
If you mocked disabled people, you'd found your guy.
If you hated intelligent people, you'd found your guy.
If you were a rapist, you'd found your guy.
If you enjoyed golden showers with Russian sex workers, you'd found your guy.
If you had done absolutely nothing to confront your emotional wreckage, you found your guy.
If you were a serial cheater, you'd found your guy.
If you were a perpetual bankrupt, you'd found your guy.
If you stiffed honest workers, you'd found your guy.
If you were a conman, you'd found your guy.
If you mocked people’s appearances, you'd found your guy.
If you longed for a toxic Daddy, you'd found your guy.
If you were dissociated and disembodied, you'd found your guy.
If you were unconscionable in every economic dealing, you'd found your guy.
If you lied as naturally as breathing, you'd found your guy.
If you had never eaten a green vegetable, you'd found your guy.
If you were a white supremacist, you'd found your guy.
If your ego contained a hole so large not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy.
If you were a sociopath who cared not one molecule about other humans, you found your guy.
If he had only two of these traits, he never would have won. He won because he had hundreds of them, and millions of people recognized themselves in at least one.
This has never been about Trump. It has always been about the people who finally had their worst instincts validated.
Trump did not create the cruelty, he licensed it. He handed out permission slips for hate.
He is merely a symptom of a far deeper disease: collective toxicity.
If there is one sentence that explains Trump’s power, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
That is the part that should chill the spine.
Who knew that tens of millions of Americans were thinking such unconscionable things about their fellow citizens? Who knew how many white men felt so threatened by women and challenged by minorities that they were ready to torch democracy to feel big again? Who knew that after decades of apparent progress on race and gender, so many people were living in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to legitimize their worst selves and convert their bitterness into political power?
We were living in a fool’s paradise.
We aren’t anymore."
— Michael Jochum
