Masks slipping everywhere

Racists are getting more cocky about showing their true faces.

Nicholas Grossman has an interesting piece in The Bulwark explaining how Republicans and conservatives seem to be talking to each other, in fanboy-ish code impenetrable to anyone who’s not very online or very dedicated to watching Newsmax, more than communicating to the general public:

In-speak has taken hold in right-wing media, too. Peruse Conservatism Inc. these days and you’ll see it’s become so dependent on inside references and shared fictions, that it’s inaccessible to the general public, even as it’s more thrilling to fans.

Except instead of “radiation can give you superpowers,” it’s stuff like “Donald Trump won the 2020 election.”

This closed system of conservative media didn’t start in 2021. For example, in September 2018, former president Barack Obama gave a speech arguing against “appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another.” By way of response, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro dismissed this idea by noting, among other things, that Obama “declared…