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In reply to the discussion: The real problem with Joe Biden's age is that she's black. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and large numbers of the right, not just the MAGAs, have been trained to irrational, destructive hostility toward anything Democrat and anything liberal. Including liberal democracy.
Starting from a base of milder form of the same that's always been there. Racism's always been there also, but it's the largest driver only for a minority. Her race, AND GENDER!, are certainly a large handy supply of fuel for the bonfire, though.
Long before a black or female president was even imagined possible, conservatives were subverting elections and considering themselves great patriots for keeping "undeserving" sorts from voting in their elections. Future confederate states didn't allow Lincoln on their ballots, "undeserving" being all white men who would have voted for him.
Notably, the pledge of allegiance they long ago forced on our nation, described as "under god," is not to principles or institutions of democracy or the Constitution, but to "the flag." Now, many carry tRump flags and dream of making ours stand for a RW authoritarian state purged of liberalism. And Democrats.
And not to leave off, the RW war on the rights and freedoms of half the nation -- women -- is very real. Everything they do would in one way or another depower women.