The thing about nice guys is that they aren't very nice. They are "nice" in the sense that they think that if they follow the rules and don't cause any trouble then things will go well for them. They are, as a consequence, easily manipulated. They were talked into believing that Obama's greatness was woven from magic thread that only non-racists could see. Everyone knows he's been a lousy president but the nice guys (both male and female) don't want to hurt anybody's feelings by saying it aloud.
Sometimes I think the only thing that will shake them out of this spell would be a really big disaster—if one of the many slowly simmering failures from the Obama years that no one is willing to look at were to boil over. Or maybe we just need to wait until Hillary Clinton is in the Whitehouse because it will then be okay to blame her for everything. Or maybe they'll just keep convincing themselves things are okay until we have a gigantic collapse of some sort.
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