I’m afraid I was able to recognize the author of the piece solely by skimming the excerpt @jamellebouie.net posted. He just says the same thing over and over and over again in the same overwrought writing and the same poor argumentative style.

OH MY GOD I KNOW I read it on the plane the day after the inauguration, it was so bad

The full article btw. It says it plain: There is no need to make this unnecessarily complicated at the beginning. Anyone who raises their right arm in a sweeping and diagonal manner several times duringa political speech in front of a partly right-wing extremist audience is doing the Hitler salute.

something too about a “hand gesture” idk if they’re doing any accountability with that one @ericlipton.nytimes.com