As a human being, Donald Trump is appalling. As a leader, he’s dangerous to global security. What the President of the US says and does means and enables a lot, in the US and abroad. Trump’s biggest impact has been the re-centering of white supremacy and racism into global...

affairs and US politics. The braces that used to at least keep racist, hateful, misogynistic and hateful sentiment at least hidden, have been removed by this President. He’s done more. He has made boorish, violent and dishonest politics profitable.

He has brazenly removed the veneer or decency that generally stops humans from going too far. Whether by design or accident, he has given many in white America the boldness to reveal their base instincts, the innate violence they harbor towards those who aren’t white..

He’s now sick with COVID-19 and the victims of his constant barrage of hate and lies must be “decent” and not say he had it coming? Those mask-less super spreader events were meant to do what, exactly? History repeats itself. This is how Nazism and fascism grew.

Creating a false equivalency between dangerous characters like Trump, who spew violence and hatred all the time, and progressives who call people like him what they really are and are doing is precisely why progressives lose. The “decency” effectively becomes a lie

The victims of institutionalized violence get tired of the tiptoeing around the truth. They look for voices that represent their condition & only see spineless flipfloppers who play the “both sides” game. That habit of subtle untruths is exactly why liberal democracy is now weak