LBJ made an incredibly prescient statement:

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

This whole setting people against one another - convincing voters that Diversity Equality and Inclusion is hurting them, that "Empathy is a sin"

Do not commit the sin of empathy.

This snake is God's enemy and yours too. She hates God and his people. You need to properly hate in response.

She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity.

-- a tweet from Ben Garrett, a pastor at Refuge Church (Reformed Baptist) in Ogden, UT.

I genuinely can't even comprehend the amount of not just ignorance, not just willful ignorance, but prideful ignorance on display.

I would love to say "we're better than this" but clearly.. we are not... we (collectively) have shown who we are and it's not pretty... Those of us who have been ringing the alarm bells and warning have been told over and over that we were overreacting.

The road to fascism is paved with the bones of the marginalized and lined with people telling us we're overreacting.