bogleech:

Key difference though between the right-wing fear of Obama and everyone else’s (as well as some of the right wing’s) fear of Trump is that with Obama it was all imaginary speculative nonsense. He never took anyone’s guns and was never even going to. He never said anything to make anyone believe he was going to. Trump on the other hand actually promised to cut life-saving benefits our country can easily afford, eliminate environmental regulation that was if anything only too loose to begin with, criminalize immigrants who aren’t hurting anybody, force an entire religion to register itself on suspicion of hypothetical terrorism, overturn reproductive rights and “undo” marriage equality, just for starters.

Whether he’s capable of doing all those things isn’t the point. He said he would. They’re his own words. He is on the side of the people who want to do these objectively horrific things. Obama NEVER fucking said any of the shit conservatives were panicking over. Not any of it. Not once. He gave the nothing to actually worry about at all for eight years and Trump in just one year has directly threatened millions of innocent people in dozens of ways for no justifiable reason.

shitrichcollegekidssay:

Can we like stop with this “Maybe Trump is actually pro-choice, pro-immigration/refugee, pro-LGBT and he just tricked half the country,” just because you saw that he briefly removed his call for a Muslim ban off of his website. Or he said some basic bullshit like “Trans people can use the bathroom, I don’t care.”

Like his VP pick is Mike Pence – do I need to explain how anti-LGBT he is and how anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, anti-choice, etc. he is? Are you paying attention to his cabinet picks? The racist, anti-choice, anti-LGBT Rudy Giuliani, and a literal white nationalist, Stephen Bannon. You know the man who has written about white people being naturally superior, the man who is a vicious misogynist, not to mention his open anti-Semitism.

But if you’re going to ignore all that let me remind you that it doesn’t really matter if Trump removed something from his website for half a day or said something that wasn’t totally evil and shitty. He ran a platform on bigotry and put millions of people’s lives at risk, the increasing hate crime reports are not a coincidence. Nothing will ever make up for the dehumanization or the fear he put into people. Saying one okay thing does not erase the millions of evil things he’s said and done.

undifferentiating:

The worst part of this is going out on the street and suddenly wondering if everyone you see is a trump voter. 59 million people out there, including my state that swung red, subscribed to his hateful, racist, xenophobic rhetoric, to pence’s violent and anti-lgbt policies. Random white people on the street, in the store, next door, everywhere- all I can think is, “Was it you? Do you hate me and everyone like me?”