The reaction to the Club Q shooting represents another return to the dark days when "America was great" because being gay or Black was illegal. The shooter's dad is...woof. The fact that the shooter was likely trolling people with his pronouns has been used by Angry Hobbit Ben Shapiro to argue that it wasn't a hate crime at all. Not the usual "lone wolf" or "mentally disturbed individual" angle, but pretty much "who gives a shit if queers die."
The premier counterfactual for this period in history is simply this: If all those Gary Johnson/Jill Stein voters in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania had voted for the email lady, would the Trumpist-style of hate-based politics remain at the margins - rather than the absolute heart - of GOP politics? How much license did Trump's "victory" give the absolute most hateful people in America to vocalize and act on their hate, or how much does Trump simply represent a moment that was inevitable? Is he cause or effect?
Oh, yeah, Happy Thanksgiving and shit.
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