Social norms largely inhibited candidates (mostly—but not—solely GOP) from pandering at scale to these most anti-social of impulses. Trump changed that by showing it’s a viable electoral strategy in a Republican primary. Social norms are social constructs chapter eleventy-billion.
Faine GreenwoodI’ve been thinking a lot about how MAGA is the feral embodiment of every single negative stereotype about Americans and American culture, brought to putrid and wildly destructive life.