I guess it's OK for whites to be victims. Because the MAGA Movement is based on victimhood. From white heterosexual males feeling feminized, to the Deep State, the entire MAGA Movement is nothing but a white grievance industry that has made household names from nobodies, and has made people rich by playing on right-wing resentment.
This is an article by David Frum. Frum is no liberal
The Conservative Cult of Victimhood
Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
By David Frum
Again and again since Election Night 2020, Republicans have urged sympathy and accommodation for those who refused to accept the election outcome.
Give them space for their feelings. What harm will it do to humor them a little longer?
Over the past half decade, we have turned much of the country’s mindscape into a group-therapy session for Trump believers. Reporters play the part of the therapist, reassuring the analyzed of a safe space for their grievances and complaints. The pro-Trump world has accepted the invitation. Even as Trump commits one constitutional, legal, and ethical abuse after another, his followers depict themselves as somehow the people truly suffering unfairness. Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
Hawley described himself as a victim of a “woke mob” after his publisher terminated his book contract because of his leadership role in propagating the falsehoods that inspired the attack. Cruz, who shoved himself to the forefront of the movement to overturn the 2020 election, has accused his critics, beginning with Biden, of “vicious, partisan rhetoric that tears our country apart.” The head of the American Conservative Union—a lobbyist married to Trump’s communications director—lamented that he and his fellow Trump supporters were being sent to a “digital Gulag.” A co-publisher of the conservative news site
Human Events tweeted: “The conservative movement is about to face a level of collective discrimination by the institutions of our society not seen since Jim Crow.” The op-ed editor of the
New York Post topped that analogy: “We're now going to see US sanctions—à la Iraq and Iran—applied to religious conservatives, economic leftists and others who reject the reigning corporate woke orthodoxy. Oh, you don't think there are 157 genders? There goes your access to banking!”
The central concept in modern conservatism is victimhood. Responsibility, accountability—those are standards they apply to others, never to themselves. Even as they confront their stark record of complicity and culpability, they cannot absorb it.
Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
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