The feral insanity on the right (anti-vax, Texas abortion law, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, January 6th, dumb-animal Trump loyalty, Ron DeSantis-styled Covid denialism) is born of a sense that culturally, politically and statistically things are winding down for whites, certainly in terms of dominance.
It’s actually more than a “sense” — it happens to be true. It also happens to be true that rightwing morons are doing an excellent job of persuading most of us that they’re foursquare against fairness, maturity, reasonable humanism, rationality, decency.
A half-century ago this country was more or less run by WASP whitebreads + Irish and Italian Catholics, etc. Progressive activist blacks, gays and women were only just beginning to be heard, and now things have more or less reversed themselves — people of color, the #MeToo vanguard and LGBTQs are more or less calling the shots in the big cities and within the big-media realm, and the term “older white straight male” has become an epithet.
Things are shifting and the bumblefucks believe, however unreasonably or ignorantly, that “diversity” means a growing tide of anti-white racism.
This has ignited a sense of blood-level panic and rage, a feeling of “throw out the usual playbook because this is war” rebellion. Especially with the spread of wokesterism and the various diluting-of-tradition signifiers, etc. And so conservative nutters are doing everything they can to load the cannons and fortify the Alamo walls, and to hell with fairness, decency and due process.
The rabid right is freaking out, and Ken Burns is not wrong.
