America Must Protect Itself From the Dangerous, Violent Fragility of White Male Mediocrity.

In order to protect white male supremacy, Trump and MAGA must attack diversity, equity, and inclusivity. But all their rage and cruelty can't mask their greatest weaknesses: their fear & fragility.

America has always been hijacked by the violent fragility of a few terrified, mediocre, white men.

They need sanitized safe spaces to protect themselves from a changing, vibrant world that sees them as equals and not superiors. They must ban books that shatter their ego and replace them with fairy tales to prove to themselves and to the world that they are “the master race.” Tragically, their superiority cannot be proven based on merit alone so they must rig the system to keep out women, Black people, and communities of color. This weakness reveals itself through slavery, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and denying women the right to vote until the 20th century. Their cowardice is on display 24-7 through non-stop projection. As they whine and rant on every platform despite being born with privilege and wealth, they demand the rest stop complaining about discrimination and bigotry and instead pull ourselves up from the bootstrap.

Meanwhile, like their current “King” and “Daddy” Donald Trump, they were often born on third base with silver and golden spoons in their mouths and still go through life thinking they hit a triple. They whine about free speech but then turn around, like the richest man on Earth Elon Musk, and cancel anyone who upsets them or hurts their feelings. They dispense cruelty but demand civility. They can throw a punch but they can’t take a tweet. They have the world’s weakest knees and chins made of jelly.

This dangerous white fragility has always kept America in a chokehold and dragged us back each time we take one step forward toward true equality and freedom. This perpetual grievance and rage is the fuel of MAGA. This explains why Donald Trump is incapable of leading the nation during an airline collision that killed every passenger and instead must falsely blame “DEI.” It explains how he was flanked by two mediocre white men, Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth, a former Fox host, and Sec. of Transportation Sean Duffy, a former The Real World reality TV star, at his infuriating press conference. Both of these men don’t have the “right stuff” to attain these positions due to their merit, but thanks to Trump’s affirmative action for mediocre white men they can fail up spectacularly.

None of them took responsibility for Trump’s decision to fire the head of TSA, force out the chief of FAA, disband an aviation security committee, or implement a hiring freeze on air traffic controllers. Nope. Instead, like the cowards that they are, they blamed diversity and former Democratic Presidents. If it wasn’t clear by now, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is simply a dog whistle for “women, Black people, and people of color.” I wish they’d simply stop playing Taboo and just say it. We all understand. I want them to take it a step further and just admit they want us to go back to 1953, before Brown v. Board of Education, to the “good ol’ days” of segregation.

This explains Trump’s vicious Executive Orders threatening to withhold federal funds from public schools that teach “CRT” (MAGA dog whistle for anything on race and gender they don’t like) and “radical, Anti-American ideologies.” He also wants more money for “school choice” which is a means of funneling our tax payer dollars into right-wing Christian schools.

Not content to make America dumb again, Trump and his MAGA redshirts also want to make America dead again in service of white supremacy and greed. This explains RFK Jr’s nomination as Director of HHS despite the man having zero medical qualifications, promoting dangerous anti-vaxx conspiracies, and doubling down on anti-Black Nazi eugenics science during a Senate hearing.

All of this chaos was preventable if enough Americans simply voted for Kamala Harris, a competent Black Indian American woman. But, nope, a plurality of Americans needed to “feel” great again by “owning the libs” and dispensing cruelty. Unfortunately, all of us are in it now. There’s still a chance for us to confront the authoritarian threat of violent, wealthy, mediocre, white men who are coming after all of us.

But first we’ll have to wake up.

We unpack all this and more in today’s episode of Democracy-Ish. Give us a listen and follow.