By letting horrible bigots have power, by not having actual protections against bad-faith actors, by tolerating hateful rhetoric despite the obvious cost to society.
We never finished the job. The civil war? We didn’t finish the reconstruction, we let those bigots keep their power. The Nazis? We hired those monsters.
On shit like tax burden and foreign policy not on who counts as a human being.
Yeah I don’t know how politics descended that far
By letting horrible bigots have power, by not having actual protections against bad-faith actors, by tolerating hateful rhetoric despite the obvious cost to society.
We never finished the job. The civil war? We didn’t finish the reconstruction, we let those bigots keep their power. The Nazis? We hired those monsters.