- A corporate Republican Party that, since Nixon, has sold itself to any and every narrative that coaxes non-rich white people to attack brown people instead of turning on their own greedy white jailers.
- A corporate Democratic Party that, since losing to Reagan, has lost all will to challenge money and has thereby abandoned the economic populist field to any charlatan willing to yell, "The system is rigged."
- A media corps that made false equivalency (Clinton cites actual proof of a Trump lie = Trump yells that Clinton is a criminal) a long-term habit and now blinks in shock at the victory of an utterly dishonest and unqualified candidate.
- A dying white electorate willing to flush its own humanity down the crapper in order to feel even the most sorry excuse for power.
- Progressive voters and non-voters -- particularly whites insulated from the worst consequences of a Trump victory -- who thought they had the luxury of ignoring what fascism actually means.
