Some newly-relevant words of wisdom from Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

[Tactical Peek]

3. Butcha Are, Blanche, Butcha Are*

Trump voters sneer at the rest of America and label all of us “coastal elites,” (including the working class people who live in America’s large cities (many in the South and MidWest) and sell the groceries, process the data, build the buildings, rake the leaves, clean the offices, serve the breakfast sandwiches, and fill the potholes). Trump voters presume that they get to decide who is and who isn’t a “real American,” and they are certain that they are and we aren’t. Most of all, Trump voters are angry because they perceive that we think they’re “stupid.”

Well, you know what?

We do. We do think you’re stupid. Really, really stupid.

We have for a long, long time and, now, thanks to you, we no longer have to be politically correct and pretend that you’re merely “economically insecure”or that Democrats just haven’t found the appropriate (politically correct) way to “reach out” to you and convince you to stop shooting (often literally) your own damn selves in your own damn diabetically-nerve-damaged feet.

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* In the movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, one elderly sister says to the other that she couldn’t treat her so badly if she weren’t confined to a wheelchair. The other sister replies, “Butcha are, Blance. Butcha are.” Republican’s couldn’t use and abuse red state voters if they weren’t so stupid. But they are. But they are.