Bad title for a great post. This is especially good:<p><i>It sort of flabbergasts me when social-justice activists don’t understand that, if we condemn not only Trump, not only his supporters, but even vociferous Trump opponents who associate with Trump supporters (!), all we’ll do is to feed the narrative that got Trumpism as far as it has—namely, that of a smug, bubble-encased, virtue-signalling leftist elite subject to runaway political correctness spirals.</i>
My fear is not that either Trump or Clinton will win, or that either person's triumph will unleash purges or counter-purges.<p>What I fear is that four or eight years later, the problems that made Trump (and to a lesser extent Bernie Sanders) gain so much traction with the electorate will remain, or perhaps worsen.<p>People might not care about experience or character by then. They'll drink the sand anyway.
Thiel seems pretty dangerous on his own, regardless of Trump support. A really smart billionaire who seems to have taken against the idea of democracy sounds like a comic book villain.