Most People I know on the Left Think Trump Supporters are "Garbage"
A quick note
One of the first things I ever said on Twitter when I was pulling away from the Left was that my side treated Trump supporters like “human garbage.” That’s one of the main reasons I left. You can search for that phrase and my name and see it come up a lot. I felt that way four years ago, and nothing since has changed my mind.
I was disgusted to be a part of it, especially after I got to know the world of Trump and MAGA. There I was, on the side with ALL of the power - all of the culture, all of the institutions, all of the corporations and we were treating the other side like they didn’t belong, that they were not worthy of sharing our pure and perfect utopia.
It wasn’t just that we all disagreed on issues. They turned it into something else: they were “racists” and bigots and “white supremacists” and “fascists.” This goes on to this day. Most of them are, as we speak, terrified that if Trump doesn’t lose he won’t accept the results, or that his “cult members” will storm the Capitol, etc.
And even if Biden didn’t mean it (he did, they all do) we’ve just lived through years and years of the media taking one word or sentence Trump said out of context and turning it into a national crisis. The media won’t fact-check themselves. They run with it because their readers demand it. For once, the narrative slipped away from them.
They did not have to go so far. They didn’t have to go to HITLER FASCISM BIGOT RACIST.
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