Sarah Kendzior is an fantastic writer and she recently penned an essay on the election. (I follow her on twitter @sarahkendzior and I highly recommend you check her out.)
In this essay, entitled “A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss”, she writes that this past year she has asked people to pay attention to America’s past and what was being presented in the election:
I asked people to see the worst in our country so that we could preserve the best of it. American exceptionalism was never real. It was a myth of hubris, and a deep denial of the past. We are a country founded on slave labour and stolen land. We are a country where white mobs lynched blacks for entertainment, and white parents told their children to gather around and cheer.
It is a short essay but this comment is striking:
We deny our worst instincts. And now we may have elected them.
Here is a link to her excellent essay:
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