You Can Tell A Lot About Someone By Who They Vote For

Americans generally are not better off than they were four years ago; the president has had a disastrous four years in office and has no actual plans for the next four, other than grift and white supremacy. Any attempt to get him to articulate a policy will result in an answer that's fifty percent rambling lies, forty percent self-congratulatory lies, and ten percent appalling truth. Again: all Trump has to offer is grift and white supremacy. That's all there is. That's pretty much all there ever was, it turns out, but now there's no pretending otherwise without looking like a fool.

Trump's supporters are generally not likely to get onto his grift, so that just leaves white supremacy as the thing they're getting out of the next four years. That's the platform, that's the policy, and that's the promise. That's pretty much all Trump supporters are voting for, here in 2020. They can pretend it's something else -- anything else! -- but that's the deal, and none of the rest of us at this point need to pretend otherwise.

Four years ago, a Trump voter who hoped to avoid being splashed by his bigotry and white supremacy could hope someone would keep him in check. Or they could argue that he was just trying to attract attention by saying outrageous things.

You can't argue that anymore. Today, the man might as well have a neon sign over his head flashing "The Nazis Will Riot When I Say So." And anyone who votes for him is OK with that.

Trump is a vicious bigot. If you vote for him this time, so are you.

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