Nobody’s Fault But That Brown Guy’s

Angry white Trump voters, listen up.

Despite your apparent disconnect from the reality the rest of us can see, you have excruciatingly little in common with the former occupant of the White House. Well, “little in common” other than your skin color.

And unless you’re orange, you don’t even have that in common with The Donald.

He knows that. Which is precisely why he focuses most of his attention on the proverbial “them” in his ubiquitous, ugly, “us versus them” rhetoric. No matter which “them” he’s blaming at the particular rally at which you happen to be insisting that Jews will not replace us, the rhetoric works the same.

None of your woes are your fault.

None of your woes are his fault, either, incidentally.

All of your woes are some specified others’ fault.

At best, it’s a convenient bit of sleight of hand, foisted upon embittered, unfortunate souls, desperate for an answer to multi-generational woes. At worst, it’s purposeful race-baiting, tricking the perpetually disadvantaged into waging class warfare against the even more disadvantaged, all to the advantage of the rich.

And either way, it’s been going on for a lot longer than Donald Trump’s been on the scene. He’s just especially adept at pulling your ultra-exposed, obvious-to-everyone puppet strings.