Behold Your Roosting Chickens, Part Wev

[Content Note: Bigotry.]

"How'd we end up with Trump?"
Low expectations 4 Reagan.
Lower expectations 4 Bush I.
Even lower expectations 4 Bush II.
McCain picks Palin.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 17, 2016

And zero expectations of Trump to be a decent human being from Day One. Decades of bigotry + ever lower standards of decency.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 17, 2016

Trump did not emerge from a vacuum. The GOP laid the groundwork for Trump for decades. He's not an anomaly; he was an inevitability.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 17, 2016

And the same dynamics are active in this very campaign. Tolerance of escalating bigotry. Rock bottom expectations for decency & competency.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 17, 2016

So where do we go from here, when folks like Rubio criticize but still support Trump? Down. We continue to go down from here.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 17, 2016

Trump will and can only ever be the nadir if his party decides that they aren't willing to go lower. So far, there are precious few signs.

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 17, 2016

Behold your roosting chickens, Republicans. https://t.co/88hW8ZZpwy

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) August 17, 2016

Meanwhile, this morning it was announced that Trump "shook up" his campaign by installing Stephen Bannon, who runs Breitbart News, as his campaign's new chief executive.

Bannon has overseen the confluence of Breitbart becoming an aggressively pro-Trump outlet and becoming an unapologetically white nationalist space, which endeavors to display every day, in all its hideous grotesquery, how the inextricable systems of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, disablism, and queerphobia undergird white nationalism.

And now he's running Trump's campaign.

"Buckle up," wrote a Trump strategist in a text message Wednesday to The Washington Post.

Fuck.