“The Hair” and The Not So Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
There are some moments in politics that inspire a sense of shame in the observer. I’m not talking about the common experience of being merely embarrassed by someone’s humiliating statement. What I mean is, that a political figure can occasionally make you a kind of accomplice in his transgression. I felt like that a while back, for example, when Trump was running for president in 2015. You might remember he had just insulted John McCain for having been captured in Vietnam. (And if you didn’t realize right then and there that Trump was a degenerate, piece of shit human being, I can’t help you.) And even though I am on the political right and Trump, as I have said before, is no conservative, I still felt somewhat complicit in the horror just by virtue of my proximity to the political culture that created that moment. I got over it, but it was not a good feeling. Why do I bring that up? Well, thanks for asking. Not too long ago, I got that ...