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do better.
Ok, how about this? The Brexit shitshow that we're currently in and Trump's 4 years of shitfuckery are not just because power-hungry proto-fascists played the populist card. They also happened because we didn't effectively counter it. All the left did was to rage against how thick people were and shout them down (when we weren't calling them a "basket of deplorables"). That approach demonstrably did not work because all that happened was that a huge number of right-leaning swing voters just went quiet and expressed their views via the ballot box instead. Preventing actual attempted mini-coups is relatively straightforward as long as the basic legal and regulatory structures remain in place. Preventing the next proto-fascist getting freely voted into power (which is where the fun really starts and those frameworks get eroded, as the last 4 years have shown) requires more than just "fuck everyone (to the political right of me)." We can do better than that.
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completely different time, place and context but you know that. i know it as well, because i was there. the TRC also came with a massive side order of actual restorative justice and no small amount of post-fact criticism on the grounds that it swept a lot of people's suffering under the carpet to appease the whites.
reconciling with white supremacists in the context of the recent fuckery in the US is an open invitation for them to try this shit again.
do better.