Zack Beauchamp↱ on polarization:
There's this argument that Trump would have won handily if it weren't for the pandemic. But his approval rating barely budged after the outbreak hit.
It seems equally likely, if not more likely, that *literally nothing mattered* — campaigns, huge world events, none of it.
Thinking back, recalling how so many people were so offended, over the years, by observing unflattering implications of their arguments—(
It's not supremacism! The problem is elitists like you calling it supremacism! Calling it supremacism is how you silence anyone who disagrees with you!)—it really does seem as if they really were just a bunch of bigoted supremacists. Or if it's not that, we can only wonder what is so much more important for them than logic and reason. They will destory themselves for this, literally give their lives for the sake of war and pestilence and deprivation. And, really, it's the deprivation that gets them off; the point is to feel empowered and worthy by inflicting suffering against others. These folks had plenty of reasons and plenty of chances to come away from the hatred, but it turns out there's always an excuse, and if those pretenses never actually come true, they always were just cheap excuses, to begin with.
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@zackbeauchamp. "There's this argument that Trump would have won handily if it weren't for the pandemic. But his approval rating barely budged after the outbreak hit. It seems equally, likely if not more likely, that *literally nothing mattered* — campaigns, huge world events, none of it." Twitter. 4 Novermber 2020. Twitter.com. 4 November 2020. https://bit.ly/3602VRm
