there was a concerted elite effort over the past five years to make America as bigoted as possible, conducted so openly that Chris Rufo was simultaneously tweeting "i am going to be lying about this subject" and being quoted on the precise subject he declared that he was lying about in the NYT
@jamellebouie.nethonestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025.
impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class