It happened because
you banned super-size sodas. And smoking in parks. And offensive ideas on
campus. Because you branded people who oppose gay marriage ‘homophobic’, and
people unsure about immigration ‘racist’.
Because you treated
owning a gun and never having eaten quinoa as signifiers of fascism. Because
you thought correcting people’s attitudes was more important than finding them
jobs. Because you turned ‘white man’ from a description into an insult. Because
you used slurs like ‘denier’ and ‘dangerous’ against anyone who doesn’t share
your eco-pieties.
Because you treated
dissent as hate speech and criticism of Obama as extremism. Because you talked
more about gender-neutral toilets than about home repossessions. Because you
beatified Caitlyn Jenner. Because you policed people’s language, rubbished
their parenting skills, took the piss out of their beliefs.
Because you cried
when someone mocked the Koran but laughed when they mocked the Bible. Because
you said criticising Islam is Islamophobia. Because you kept telling people,
‘You can’t think that, you can’t say that, you can’t do that.’
Because you turned
politics from something done by and for people to something done to them, for
their own good. Because you treated people like trash. And people don’t like
being treated like trash. Trump happened because of you.
