Reid read a letter from a seventh-grade young woman of color who said she woke up feeling scared that Trump was president. 4/
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Reid: "If we ignore her voice and other voices, this 7th grader will be left to conclude that we, as a nation, find her fear acceptable." 5/
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It was possible to see all this coming days after the election. Reid saw it. Many others did too. 6/
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The normalization of Trump was unconscious and all-consuming. No one wanted to believe our POTUS is as bad a person as Trump clearly is. 7/
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But Trump is, quite simply, a very bad human being. We as a country have spent the past 8 months truing to avoid that obvious conclusion. 8/
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(For those in my TL who think I am just waking up to Trump being a bad person, please scroll down. Thanks.) 9/
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A lot of reporters and pundits said stuff like, "we aren't normalizing Trump - the American people normalized him" via the election. 10/
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But the election didn't suddenly make Trump NOT an admitted sexual assaulter or sympathizer of racists & Nazis. He's all of those things 11/
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Most Democrats did not want to go as far as Reid did in condemning Trump three days after the election. Reid disagreed, but understood. 12/
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It's pretty understandable to want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. Lots of folks did that for 8 months. That has to be over now. 13/
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Has there been a lot of democratic "benefit of the doubt"? My impression from the D side it was largely about what larger public wd accept.
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