Felt you were too negative...during your cancer.

a nightmare, truly.

They send emails talking about how Trump is the prophetic fulfillment of God’s will.

Exactly. An ACOG sight alone can cost over $1000. Anyone able to open carry a 5.56mm rifle with all the accessories is by definition not poor at all. 

Yup. Classism is the go-to to make sure your base is too splintered to be a danger to the powerful top leaders.

And the difference was the shame of being obviously working-class,

Well done Emily! This was a very poignant and sharp read for sure. 

My mother went to college at UC Berkeley. She voted Democratic in every election, and growing up she presented the political world around us as a Manichaean split between good (JFK and MLK) and evil (Nixon). I can remember her attending church rallies where she sang, “We Shall Overcome” with real emotion in her voice.…

“He quit [the KKK] because it’s all white trash now”

Great article, thank you! I married into a family from a state known for it’s resentment at having been mostly forced to be Union. My husband grew up hearing stories gleefully told of ancestors dodging the Union draft.

I had a long, shocking talk with my MIL earlier this year about how the West Coast state my family…

Let’s not pretend this was an organic uprising, though.

I was going to school in Louisiana when Duke was elected to the LA House of Rep in 1989 and it was a real “record scratch” moment for me about the depth of the racism there.  Now of course looking back it’s just a sign of how young and clueless I was because the racism and economic disparity was all around me, even in…

I’m imagining a call like this:

Journalists helped create this lie by focusing on diners, truckers, and giving their subjects folksy names like “Joe the plumber”. They helped create the folksy category that admits white working class people only. 

It amazes me that anyone would be surprised to find out that the mob was made up of people of privilege. Your stereotypical poor white Trump supporter who lives in the sticks doesn’t have the means to travel to DC in the middle of the work week. The Trumper who ate a bullet (not mentioning her name because fuck her)…

Great piece. Also worth noting that the narrative that these are uneducated hicks misses the point entirely. These insurrectionists were doctors, lawyers, Olympic gold medalists. White supremacy, not intelligence, is the unifying issue.

“My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers”.

Too bad Sudekis didn’t cheat on Wilde & get himself proclaimed King.

Well I have no problem with idiot terrorists like QShaman, Richard Barnett and the Chip Gaines lookalike having to make furniture during their incarceration.  

Yeah that’s defnitely the kicker in all this. Her parents with their name, money, and connections could have gotten their kids internships or P.A. positions in the beauty, fashion, or entertainment industry and those experiences would have allowed the girls to branch out from there to get to the areas they wanted to…