I wrote this a year ago. I wrote about Trump’s campaign of raci anxiety when he won the first time as did others. Look to see who is being platformed in this America that many of us predicted, and who has been disappeared. That will reveal a lot about this moment and what power wants us to believe.

As I wrote in my Charlie Kirk essay: “The period since Kirk’s death has revealed a deeply unsettling cultural shift…espousing open and explicit bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the civil rights era.”

Oh, there are reasons. But too fraught to lay out via social media.

I think both his anti-Blackness and anti-Semitism are equally important. I am pointing out why only one in this moment seems to be a problem.

Treating anti-Blackness as beside the point, as not disqualifying, as something to be overlooked, I’d argue, is partially how we got here.

Would be nice is some journalists out there who are covering this ask the politicians such as Ted Cruz and others who are so outraged why they are only pushing back against anti-Semitism while we see the largest attack on civil rights in a century.

The Heritage Foundation has an anti-Semitism task force even as Project 2025 seeks to dismantle civil rights enforcement and anti-racism work and staff “revolted” not over Fuentes’s explicit racism. Instead, anti-Semitism claims are being used to dismantle multiculturalism at universities.

These panels with a bunch of aging centrists telling everyone else what to think because only they know what’s best for the country — and apparently NYC just continues to make these shows look out of touch. It’s so patronizing and tiresome.