Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Actually, character does count.(Illustration by Hannah Yoest / photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)An awful lot of appear to be shocked by what is happening right now in America.But I’m kind of curious. What did they think was going to happen?The president has a real job. His words have real consequences. Electing someone to that position who has no compunction about stoking racial tensions and a history of incendiary, violent, racist rhetoric—and totally uninterested in even the idea of national unity—was always a ticking time bomb.None of this is to...…Support The Bulwark and subscribe today.,Actually, character does count.(Illustration by Hannah Yoest / photos: GettyImages / Shutterstock)An awful lot of appear to be shocked by what is happening right now in America.But I’m kind of curious. What did they think was going to happen?The president has a real job. His words have real consequences. Electing someone to that position who has no compunction about stoking racial tensions and a history of incendiary, violent, racist rhetoric—and totally uninterested in even the idea of national unity—was always a ticking time bomb.None of this is to...WW…