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> Trump's win was a revolt against the social justice age.

So, it wasn't bigotry it was just a reaction against the rejection of bigotry?

The social justice age wasn't a rejection of bigotry. It was a Mccarthy-esque movement of dividing everybody between sexual and racial lines into a hierarchy of who was and wasn't allowed to speak. Speaking against the party line meant exile.

The SJW/Wokeism movement had nothing to do with true equity and "rejection of bigotry". That's why there was such a revolt against it.

> Speaking against the party line meant exile.

But that has got worse, not better.

Trump is threatening to cancel contracts with Musk and to Munich him if he funds opposition.

That’s the bluntest example of ‘cancel culture’ you’ll find.

Also: Musk and Trump deserve each other.

Of course, I didn't claim that the republicans aren't now doing everything they claimed to revolt against but worse. As it turns out "free speech" absolutism only applies to things that pwn the libz.

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