There's a guy who regularly replies to him called paco and the man is a moron. I really don't condone violence but if I met him I would struggle not to take a swing. He's Latino and he posts shit like mixed race society doesn't work and that all immigrants should go home. He's EXTREMELY Islamaphobic and his Twitter feed is full of videos of Muslims getting beaten up in various places around the world. He's always called out on his hypocrisy or blatant stupidity but like all the Trump supporters that come in here he never replies, if he does he just blames the Dems or Obama or Hillary. I personally just cannot fathom how people like this exist. They are just so ignorant and full of hate. It angers me too much, I really think i'm going to take a break from it all for a while because it's just too darn depressing, I've been pretty absent here recently for that reason.
I expose myself to limited doses of Twitler disciples. That helps. I also perceive that more people than during the campaign tackle Twitler fans on Twitter.
OTOH, I take a lot of optimism from the fact that Brexit, Twitler's election and the possible election of right-wing leaders in the Netherlands and France were the turning point for many thousand people in many countries to stand up and engage in society and politics again, after years in which it was considered old school, nostalgic or weird.
Take for example the townhalls in the US, that's impressive. Think of the anti-45 protests in the UK. Or think about the couple from Frankfurt, Germany, who founded the movement Pulse of Europe at the end of last year. They started with a small rally in Frankfurt (every Sunday from 2-3PM GMT) in January. Yesterday, #PulsefEurope rallies were taking place in 12 EU member states in more than 80 cities (by far the most in Germany, but also 8 French cities, 2 in Austria, 2 in NL etc).
In Berlin, about 7,500+ people attended, in other cities it's in the lower 4 digit numbers or just a couple of hundreds. It's a movement across party lines, it's across nationalities, biographies and social classes (if I'm allowed to use that word). Everyone who attends is invited to speak to the crowd and share experiences, concerns, hopes. Some stories are really moving, i.e. from the generation of those who were a kid during WWII or those who lived in countries of the Eastern block during the cold war. Or if somebody who was engaged in the student protest movement 1969 - which pressed the generation of their grandfathers or fathers why they allowed this disaster of Hitler and the NSDAP to happen - says that unlike his grand-fathers, he wants to have a good answer when
his grand-children ask what he has been doing when xenophobia and nationalism were on the rise again.
And if several thousand or hundred chant the European anthem at the end of the rally, it's a real moral booster.
As the editorial of the LA Times wrote: Everybody has a role in this drama to play. While it's a call to Americans, the same is true across the globe, and I see more and more people doing it - which gives me enough confidence to face the Trumpites and like-minded people elsewhere.
I honestly have no words left.