Look What You Made Us Do
If we’re trying to explain Trump, let’s not dwell on which party’s elites and ordinary voters alike are 99% behind him:
Look, if liberals hadn’t tried to protect civil rights and expand access to healthcare, conservatives wouldn’t been forced to vote for a white nationalist who wanted to take people’s health insurance away to pay for an upper-class tax cuts. I think the causal mechanism is something like this:
1. Oberlin sophomore applies overbroad definition of the term “appropriation”
2. Conservative pundits lose their shit over this
3. ???????
4. Republicans forced to support Donald Trump
5. CHECKMATE LIBS!
I assume Goldberg’s forthcoming book, Stop Hitting Yourself, is in contract with Adam Bellow.