In addition to being violent and stupid, white supremacy is ultimately self-destructive.
That’s because this hateful ideology is based on lies and a romanticized image of a past that only exists in the imagination of broken people overdosing on privilege and grievance.
It’s 24-7 cosplay.
It’s weak, insecure men - and women - who need to create a simplistic narrative in which they are the virtuous heroes chosen by God and nature to vanquish “the enemy” that is the alleged source of all their problems and erectile dysfunctions.
It explains the entire modus operandi of Pete Hegseth, a fragile misogynist with a history of alcoholism and sexual assault, who feels he must take photos of himself exercising with Navy Seals to be seen as a totally straight, no gay, tough man. He’s so insecure that he covers himself up in cosplay Crusader tattoos. Then there’s Kash Patel, who is so insecure that he needed to wear a medium female FBI agent’s jacket before exiting the plane and addressing the press after Charlie Kirk’s murder. He just announced that the FBI, which has lost brilliant, qualified agents after the Trump Administration’s anti-DEI policies, will now be trained by UFC fighters.
This is too dumb for the movie Idiocracy.
But this is white supremacy and white male fragility. This is Donald Trump, a man who can be flattered and bullied into joining an utterly disastrous war without an entry or exit strategy. The world burns because these men couldn’t get Daddy to love and care for them properly, so that hole is now being filled with endless bullying, grievances, cruelty, corruption, women, and grift. But it’s never enough. Still, they whine and cosplay.
It worked for a decade, but MAGA overreached. The base loved them as long as they were hurting women, immigrants, and people of color. Unfortunately, now they’re suffering as well, and it’s showing up in the polls.
Fascists come for everyone, including their own. The Iran War has spiked gas prices. Grocery prices remain high thanks to Trump’s stupid trade war. ICE agents are now killing white people and terrorizing white communities. And, the Epstein Files are never going to be released because, clearly, Donald Trump is covering up his relationship with the world’s most notorious pedophile.
Whoopsie!
I talk to Jared Yates Sexton about the violent delusion of white supremacy and how America is finally waking up to the nightmare.
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