Guns and Bigotry Are the Real Threats to America’s Kids. Drag Shows Are Not.

Many people thought once Donald Trump was out of the White House that Trumpism—the belief that white evangelical Americans are exclusively responsible for what makes America great, and that their greatness is being disregarded as the country’s demographics shift and ancient norms are challenged—would exit the stage in disgrace with him.

But such foolishly optimistic people grossly underestimated the disdain white evangelical Americans harbor for “the other.”

Democrats wanted to believe that white evangelicals were better than they are. They hoped that historic change—through the election of the nation’s first Black president and the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that nationalized marriage equality—was somehow going to erase this nation’s intertwined history of white domestic terrorism, from slavery to Jim Crow to the criminalization of LGBTQ Americans.

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