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Trolling Isn’t Politics: Working Class People Need Actual Policy
The Dark MAGA Carnival Show that is Vowing to Get Nothing Done For Us
He’s big, he’s funny, and he’s gregarious. When Mark Robinson walked onto the stage at the Trump rally last month in Selma, North Carolina, the crowd went wild. Someone introduced him over the megaphone in a thundering voice as “the next governor of North Carolina” and he feigned bashfulness. Robinson then recited a rote rags to riches story, before launching into the worn talking points of the far-right. His speech was a jumble of words– a platitudinous word play of the catch phrases and slogans and melodramatic manufactured outrage material that is becoming all too familiar: There’s pornography in our libraries and groomers in our classrooms laying in wait to turn our kids gay. He probably muttered something about Critical Race Theory… I can’t actually recall. He was losing the audience as he carried on and on so he stopped and bellowed: “Two plus two equals four! Not transgender!” And they went wild again.
But why? It was just a sentence that didn’t even make sense.
I had no reason to believe the moms and dads laughing and cheering around me weren’t a lot like me. We are probably all concerned about our schools, about our hometowns, about securing a decent future for…
