...but too many people just couldn't bring themselves to do it. The mitigation became "the price of eggs" or "she sat next to Liz Cheney". This country felt more comfortable with a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist, who was still under indictment, than they did with the black lady. That's not "white supremacy", that's "white primacy": the belief that a white person, any white person, is a better alternative than an unidealized black person.
Should this country survive this, the lesson most likely still won't be learned. There will be those who'll think Trump was the aberration, and, because there's little appreciation of history, they'll put themselves in the position of a smarter, more competent version of the authoritarian having another run at accomplishment where Trump has failed. Because too many people don't understand that we've had 240 years of the exceptions holding power. The default throughout history and throughout the world shows us that dictatorship is the preference of those who would hold power. The precedents set by Trump and the permission slips doled out to him by a unconcerned Supreme Court will make up the road map for that person who may already be the Vice-President of the United States.
I would hope if this country does get out of this and back to a functioning democratic republic more people will have learned the folly, and price, of white primacy, but I'm doubtful.
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