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   Sheril Kirshenbaum (sheril@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 07:51:16 JST Sheril Kirshenbaum

   Reading an otherwise excellent book, “Polarized America,” published in 2006. But this line strikes me as a bit naive through the lens of December 2023:

   “there is simply no question to us that the United States is a far more tolerant place [than] it was fifty years ago.”

   The authors couldn’t have imagined what - and who - was coming. #politics

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 07:51:15 JST gnutelephony

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     • Ramesh #NotGoingBack

     @rameshgupta @Sheril the irony is Obama tried as president to be the whitest possible black man he could be...

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     Ramesh #NotGoingBack (rameshgupta@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Dec-2023 07:51:16 JST Ramesh #NotGoingBack

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     @Sheril

     Yes! Nobody could have imagined, much less predicted that.

     #Obama's election threw #White #Christians into apoplectic rage, paving the way for #TeaParty, #NewtGingrich, and the #religious #FarRight, culminating in #MAGA and #Trump

     #GOP