We didn’t learn our lesson all the years Trump was president last time. We ignored the Proud Boys, the Nazis in Charlottesville with their tiki torches, the bible photo op after beating aside protestors. None of this mattered to most of us outside the moment they happened. We’re all quickly absorbing the news in these small increments and consider it all to be a normal part of life in America.
I don’t think there’s an easy way to convince ourselves that we shouldn’t put up with this, especially now that the orange fascist is reelected. People want comforting lies and violent rhetoric because they’re used to it. They want to be told the US is the best country in the world and if we just got rid of the undesirables we’ll be back to our glory days, whatever they think that may be.
Republicans want drones and cannon fodder, not scientists and intellectuals.