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I know it would never happen, but that SHOULD be a career ending move.
Remember when Howard Dean screamed a little bit too enthusiastically and it ended his career?
I'd never heard that, but there's a wiki page on it with the scream lol.
"Dean Scream"
Because enough people are racist enough to look the other way. Definitely maybe 30 years ago this would have been career ending, but I always say that the living memory of horrors of fascism is slowly evaporating, so the younger people don't know well enough not to FAFO if they even entertain fascism at the slightest bit.
Yup. Generational amnesia is going to fuck us all, even people old enough to know better....between nonsense like antivaxxer and fascism and probably a few other things I'm forgetting right now, it'd be nice if there were a great way to download wisdom.
One path for that, one might hope, is education. But that obviously has not worked. Whether that's by design thanks to the intentional sabotage of the far right and how much of that sentiment is really, really hard to translate to younger minds is hard to say - since younger minds tend to be, as a general rule, extremely narcissistic.
You forgot trickle down economics, hating Russia, WMDs, Romney Care, family values, fiscally conservative, The War on Drugs, interracial marriage, Oxycotin, Watergate, Iran-Contra Scandal, Bush vs Gore, segregation, January 6th, 9/11, Southern Strategy, lynching, Puerto Rico sterilization, McCarthyism, Tuskegee Project, John Birch Society, KKK, Pat Robertson, Birthers, Death Panels, and so much more.