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Joseph Fink@planetoffinks.bsky.social |
there is such a rich text of evil in how Obama had to be followed up with not just a white man, but a mediocre white man, a lazy white man who can barely focus. how unimpressive he is feels like part of the point
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@knabepicer.bsky.social
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An excellent piece on that topic:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Trump after Obama is basically a filled-in swimming pool thing. “Oh, a black president. How about the jerk from Celebrity Apprentice? Not such an august position now.”
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Charles O’Connor
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It’s completely the point and key to his appeal. His weakness resonates with the weakness of his supporters. Like him, they can only imagine the exercise of power as cruelty.
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Dan Mishkin
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It was not for nothing that Ta-Nehisi Coates called Trump "the first white president"—not a return to the default, but elected because he was white.
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