Cute Winter Boots: The Meme That Made Abusers Cry Foul

A little-discussed corner of TikTok developed over the course of the Trump campaign: conservatives posting “think twice” videos directed at progressives supposedly making noises about coming after conservatives.

It’s silly enough for these jerkoffs to carefully curate lighting, camera angles, and ominous music to make themselves appear intimidating; but sillier still for people who’ve spent the last two decades making hit lists of all the people they want to hurt to characterize those people’s determination to defend themselves as some kind of attack.

Conservatism has taken a dark turn since the Obama years, devolving from a pro-business/family-values coalition into a paranoid pro-billionaire/Christian-nationalist death cult. Their politics and personalities are obsessed with the violent domination of every single American underclass — women, ethnic/sexual/religious minorities, and immigrants chief among them — which is used as a cover to keep working class conservative Whites happy while billionaires scam them, pick their pockets through taxes and tariffs, defund…