Trump supporters absolutely love to blame Obama for somehow “increasing division and racism”, or hanging his response to Trayvon and Ferguson and Alton Sterling and Eric Garner around his neck.

Does this presidential responsibility extend to Trump over the deaths of George Floyd? Oh no, that’s a blue state. How about Breonna Taylor in Kentucky? Oh no, they may have a Republican supermajority but they also have a Democratic governor. How about Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, with no Democrats in state power? Well, that was just Ahmaud’s fault, can’t blame a government for that.

But what can you expect in responsibility from the same rubes who believe that voting-by-mail and wearing a mask in public are unmanly and fraudulent?

What can you expect in good faith from those who believe that everyone is out to take their property and historical dominance away?

What can you expect from them except nonsense? Disinfo? Lies? Infections? Hatred? Authoritarianism? Gaslighting? Entitlement? Shibboleths? Anti-urbanism? Half-baked plots for civil war? Fully-baked plots to further disenfranchise Americans?

Same old shit, same old excuses, same as it ever was.

Talking Heads was right.