My wife and I are legitimately, deeply worried about the debates tonight. HRC has a wealth of experience and knowledge, but Trump is a totally unpredictable debater and no one knows what he might say or do and how it’ll play with the general electorate.
This is a guy who says our queerness shouldn’t exist, my brownness shouldn’t exist, and our interracial marriage shouldn’t exist. This is a man who would ship off our Muslim friends to internment, allow our black friends to be killed by the police, and allow thousands of refugees to die at the hands of ISIS (which plays directly into that organization’s hands).
I get that y’all in safe states might want to vote third party, but listen to me: Trumpism cannot be defeated by narrow margins. We need to show protofacists that this philosophy of muscular, aggressive know-nothing xenophobia and racism has no place in our country. That it cannot and will not win elections. Victory against Trumpism cannot be slim – it must be devastating.
Because if it isn’t, the next person espousing Trump’s ideas will have a real PR team. They’ll be able to shut their mouth and code their speech. They’ll be able to advance their hideous ideas down the road that he paved. They’ll have the support of the Republican establishment. And that man will be elected, and the fallout from that event cannot be estimated, but it will surely be terrible, for America and for the world.
like an open book 