William Lindsey :toad:<p>Noting that "Trump is doing what he promised on the campaign trail: wreaking economic havoc on America and destroying the rules-based international order. Voters chose him anyway," Alex Shephard asks how so many Americans who voted for the man did not see this coming?</p><p>To which I'd reply: racism and misogyny are powerfully addicting drugs, and also powerfully stupefying ones. A lot of us are addicted.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Selma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selma</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <br>/5</p><p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/192315/trump-economy-recession-ukraine-russia-world-war-apocalypse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/192315</span><span class="invisible">/trump-economy-recession-ukraine-russia-world-war-apocalypse</span></a></p>