You know what's really tedious? Right-wing demagogues saying their political opponents "hate America." It's always way too much effort to sell the public on your philosophy/program when demonization is so easy.

The present GOP doesn't have a program/philosophy they have any confidence in selling, nothing they want to build, nothing in our lives they want to improve, and there's so much hate in what they do want they're afraid to be honest about it. So they just fling feces at opponents.

The sickest part of Fox types saying Dems/libs hate America is that it's clear they're the ones who hate the way it was heading--towards a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-gender, largely secular, inclusive republic. The % we've gotten closer to that is the % of their hate.

They dislike that? They're entitled to an opinion. But where do you go from there? The alternative to a multi-everything America is a white-only, cisgender-only USA, & not only is that repugnant to those who love America for what is/could be, you'd need a time machine to never.

The frightening aspect of Trump, Tucker Carlson et al is that they've convinced some large number of us that Imaginary Apartheid America is desirable/possible. You see it on social media every day: First the slur, then "Trump 2020!" Not a coincidence.

The country was never the white guys' paradise they imagine, and to the extent it was it was predicated on human suffering on a massive scale. And the only way to achieve that state of racial purity today would be through human suffering on a massive scale.

I started out intending to say, "Tammy Duckworth hates America" is a giveaway that the speaker has nothing to say, no content to offer, just assassination. It's an admission of tremendous fear and weakness. But thinking through this thread, I've realized something more:

That there can be only one end to a reactionary program. I'm not hysterical or saying they're going to open camps tomorrow, only that logically they want to and eventually they would have to. Because there is no way to retreat from multi-everything USA except via suppression.