Oddbean new post about login | logout #MicroFiction #USPol I always loved this time of day on a weekend in my neighborhood. The sun is low in the sky. My street looks almost like a version of Stonehenge as the light peers through a keyhole of row houses. Things are quieting down. A smell of a grill wafts across the front yards of our working class neighborhood. But the riots would come soon. The cognitive dissonance of 40million Trump supporters had turned into a rod of plutonium. Their anger and frustration of... 🧵 1/2
...The Great Replacement Theory had reached a boiling point. The release valve wouldn't be just one flash point that history books could point to like Fort Sumpter, the Bismarck, Archduke Ferdinand or the bombing of Pearl Harbor. No. Multiple flash points would happen here and there. Micro battles would occur in small enclaves until the 100th Monkey created a synchrony of flashpoints everywhere in Portland, Philly, Charleston, Houston, St Louis... all over the country #CivilWar. 🧵 2/2