I’ve tried to not follow politics much since January 20th, but the last couple weeks have been hard to not pay attention to. The Democrats should be in strategy mode right now for a Congressional take over in 2018 so they can do what Republicans are too cowardly to do themselves: impeach Trump.

I get back on Facebook for one day to make a cool life announcement, and I’m so immediately baffled by the exponential degree to which identity politics with social justice extremists has increased. 2018 won’t be about how Trump’s follies as a ‘leader,’ or his ties with Russia, even how those ties likely got him in the White House entirely. It’ll be the same bullshit that fueled his base in 2016: everything is racist, everything is sexist.

I saw a kid post a meme on a “friend’s” wall about how straight people aren’t the problem, homophobes are, how white people aren’t the problem, racists are; how we need to drop the generalizations and focus on character. Sounds reasonable right? Fuck no, of course not. According to said social justice extremist friend, not only was it ignorant but that it was likely written by (ironically) a cishet white manbaby liberal. Also that the only correct part of the meme was about only critiquing based on character.

For one, someone needs to explain to people who think like this the fundamental idea of what the pot calling the kettle black actually means. Secondly, the meme is meant to provide a logical observation about the problem that is the growing number of extremists blaming everything on white people, men, etc. Lastly, you have to really be devoid of any level of self-awareness if you’re swaying from one pillar of “yes, we should only focus on character” to “this was written by a cishet manbaby”. Good job.

If Democrats can’t find ways to quell this sort of whining from these people, they’re going to find themselves in deep shit come 2018. But if these people’s conclusion is that “Resisting Trump” means engaging in more of the same thought and language policing that won him the Presidency in the first place, then the race is likely already lost anyway.