but Obama broke many people's brains nationally -- and again, I have to say this was across the political spectrum. any white crank could do better, and in fact, to reinforce the hierarchy of whiteness, the more outré, the better. and the worst man could do better than the most accomplished woman.
it became very important to tastemakers that everyone stay in their lane, even though the tastemakers might be poorly socialized anonymous participants on social media. why? a collective anxiety that society had broken caste barriers, though people with education sometimes talked about a pendulum.
it is *important* to many of these people that an unintelligent rapist white felon be the most powerful person in the world. his criminality is the point! they know what he is, and they embrace it because it reestablishes the American great chain of being. which brings us to Vance, who is a punk.