‘The Cruelty Is The Point’
A few excerpts from a long twitter exchange/thread from Lincoln Project Senior Adviser Tom Nichols:
I know we want to believe our fellow citizens voted as if they are just making a civic decision about what's best for America. I think that was a legit way to view 2016. I think there is almost no way to view Trump's voters in 2020 that way. /4
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 27, 2020
But the insane Left does not control the Democratic Party, and the totalitarian streak among the liberals is still mostly stupid college kids and their professors, along with hucksters in the HR departments. Joe Biden isn't that. /6
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 27, 2020
I also think it's time for the Trump voters to start thinking about understanding the rest of America, instead of it always being this one-way street of understanding and compassion. They're the new minority. They might think harder about *why* others feel about them as we do. /8
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 27, 2020
But more to the point, why is it always a plea for *us* to understand *them*? Why is it always one way? Why is there never a plea - or demand - to people in rural Indiana to say: "Listen, you better start understanding the 100 million Americans who aren't like you."
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 27, 2020
And just to continue this rant a little more: These Trump voters did not spend a lot of time saying "You know, the inner cities are a mess, and people there seem desperate and unhappy. I wonder why. Maybe I should understand them more."
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 27, 2020
Instead, they said: F*ck those cities. /1
Keen perspective.