You underestimate just how brain melted the average American is, especially Americans who describe themselves as conservatives. Fascism is background radiation to them. They no longer feel it. Racism is so deep in their bones they don’t recognize it in others unless it’s someone screaming the n-word, but probably not even then. They’re so primed that they didn’t recognize Musk’s salute as a Nazi gesture.
Like sure there are a lot of cynics, and conservatives often are simply doing a game because they have no true beliefs other than white supremacy. But the average conservative is absolutely cooked and pudding brained. They see someone like Kirk and simply don’t hear the racism. Maybe because they know even worse racists, maybe because they have zero thoughts in their head. The major reason is because America is so fucking racist that someone like Charlie Kirk seems like a well spoken middle ground to more overt racists
You underestimate just how brain melted the average American is, especially Americans who describe themselves as conservatives. Fascism is background radiation to them. They no longer feel it. Racism is so deep in their bones they don’t recognize it in others unless it’s someone screaming the n-word, but probably not even then. They’re so primed that they didn’t recognize Musk’s salute as a Nazi gesture.
Like sure there are a lot of cynics, and conservatives often are simply doing a game because they have no true beliefs other than white supremacy. But the average conservative is absolutely cooked and pudding brained. They see someone like Kirk and simply don’t hear the racism. Maybe because they know even worse racists, maybe because they have zero thoughts in their head. The major reason is because America is so fucking racist that someone like Charlie Kirk seems like a well spoken middle ground to more overt racists