Wasn't desegregation fun? Forced busing, the National Guard, violence and protests. This is what the politics of denial gives you. Apply it to the economy: you get the 2008 recession. Apply it to government: gridlock and failure. Apply it to the environment: possibly the end of life as we know it.
The South walked right into its worst fears on race. It would have been so much easier if they had let up on black people incrementally, as they are now being forced to do with Hispanics, who admittedly didn't start out in as deep a hole as blacks. It would have been similar with blacks, I suspect.
A thriving, semi-integrated subculture with all kinds of cool stuff going on, but the whites wouldn't allow it so they put us through a monstrous mess. Now "monstrous mess" may as well be our website. Tom Cotton and his circle will not abide rational, productive, inclusive government and its results.
They simply won't have it and nothing more can be said. They must be defeated or forced busing will look like fun in comparison with the shit they will put us through. I don't see it happening. Tom's adversaries haven't suffered enough to take up the fight. They've never been invaded and conquered.
So they see Tom and Thom and Mitch as curious throwbacks. They are curious throwbacks but ones whose lives are animated by hatred and a grudge. They were wronged. They were raped. Justice must be done. Justice as in lynching: extrajudicial, suppressive and unstoppable as long as they have a say.
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