Ryan Amor

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What if we're the bad guys?

My original Twitter account was permanently suspended because I was vicious against Trump and his supporters.

If words were actual knives and guns, my kill rate would be on genocide levels. I crossed all lines, I had zero compunction.

And then everything started to taste toxic and I could feel the toxicity as if it were something real coursing through my bloodstream. So I said fuck that. Bye.

And now like someone ‘rehabilitated’ and detoxified, I’m trying a route I thought I had tried- an educated understanding of things.

In an opinion piece for the NY Times, David Brooks tries to explain why, ‘Trump’s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020. What’s going on here? Why is this guy still politically viable, after all he’s done?

We know what he’s done for sure, and they’re unequivocally wrong, but there’s another villain behind Trump - us. We created and continue to maintain the conditions that make him thrive.

‘We can condemn the Trumpian populists all day until the cows come home, but the real question is when will we stop behaving in ways that make Trumpism inevitable.’