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Originally Posted by simplicitus
(Though Bannon did believe SP was the vanguard for the movement he wanted and made a hagiography about her.)
She basically was. She was Donald Trump lite. Not as rich as Trump. Not quite as dumb. Not as bombastic. She held the same simplistic, populist views that unintelligent people identify with but didn't dress them up with sleazy salesmanship the way Trump did.
She definitely planted the seeds for this whether she knew it or not.
As for this Clovis spat, I think it's wise to remain nuanced when discussing complex topics like racism and discerning different forms and degrees of racism rather than lumping them all together. Just because the right has decided to take a bat to intellectual discourse doesn't mean that we should follow it up with the coup de grâce. Doing so does not make racism acceptable but it allows us to address people as individuals (or at least in smaller demographics) which makes helping them see things differently an easier task.
Ultimately, somebody has to stand in favor of intellectualism and not allow themselves to get bogged down in fights between anti-intellectuals.