I don't know who Becca Andrews is, but she writes for Mother Jones and I feel like throwing her a parade. The endless Forgotten White Working Class Trump Voters Economic Anxiety And No Racism spelunking since last November grew tiresome before Christmas. It has needed a purgative corrective for months now, and Ms. Andrews finally has delivered one.

It seems Ms. Andrews grew up in a small town in Crockett County, Tennessee. (Here's a soundtrack for this part of the post.) She went back there and, glorioski, she found that there are Forgotten Minority Working Class Voters there, and that they're not feeling much better than any other group of minority voters these days.

Turner tells me that over the past year, life for her family has changed. She hints that her parents have been in West Tennessee long enough to know which families fought against civil rights "back in the day." Since Trump's election, they've warned her to steer clear of a list of people that is too long for comfort. The day after the November presidential election, Turner went with her mother to the store, and they both kept their heads down. "We just feel like we don't belong here anymore," she says.

Even from my seat here in the Front Row, this sounds pretty bad.

Turner's mom, who cleans houses in town for a living, went to work a couple of days after that, and her employer, an older white woman, brought up the results of the recent election. The two had talked politics before—Turner's mom is a Democrat, and her employer is a Republican. "Well, you might as well come and live with me now," the employer said. "You gonna be mine eventually." She called her daughter in tears. Turner immediately got in her car and picked her mother up to bring her home.

Lovely. I hope Miss Daisy there steps on a damn water moccasin.

Last year before the election, a young woman Turner described as one of her best friends casually mentioned she hoped for a Trump victory so that he might "do away with some of these African American people." She quickly clarified that she wasn't referring to Turner's "type," but when Turner sharply asked her what she meant, she couldn't answer. Another friend assured her that it would be okay if Trump won the election because she would convince her parents to purchase Turner's family as their new slaves. In a place where a few large plantation-style houses remain scattered through the county, the "joke" feels a lot like a threat.

There was a CBS poll that came out Thursday in which 67 percent of Republicans polled approved of the president*'s manic, racially divisive response to the events in Virginia last weekend. Later on Thursday, the president reverted to his campaign style by once again summoning a vicious, racist myth about what General Pershing did to Muslim prisoners-of-war.

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Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017

I'm sorry. But I'm out of patience. Racism got this guy elected and, eventually, racism is going to account for all the support he has left. Once we accept that as a nation, we can begin making sure that this catastrophic presidency never occurs in the future. And then, maybe, Becca Andrews's friends down in Crockett County can breathe a little easier.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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