“One
of the distinguishing traits of the troll-style politics that dominates
Trump-era conservatism is the utter disregard for any values outside of winning
at all costs and, perhaps even more importantly, defeating liberals. Decency,
political norms and truth itself are all treated as acceptable casualties in
the endless quest to fuck with the left.
But while many of
the excesses of the right seem new, the reality is that the Trumpian right is
just the outgrowth from roots laid years, even decades ago, in the American
right. The racism and sexism, the conspiracy theories, the harping about
political correctness? All of it goes back decades and is only exploding out of
control now because the right wing political infrastructure has let these foul ideologies
and stupid ideas flourish for so long.” [Author Amanda Marcotte, Troll
Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking
Liberals, America, and Truth Itself, 2018]
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