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dajoki

(10,678 posts)
Wed May 25, 2022, 02:37 PM May 2022

Is Trumpism This Generation's Version of the Confederacy?

Is Trumpism This Generation's Version of the Confederacy?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/is-trumpism-this-generations-version

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Today’s Republican Party, under the control of Trumpism, is every bit as real a threat to the survival of our republic as was the Confederacy in the 1860s.

It’s emerged from similar conditions and reflects a nearly identical worldview grounded in the fear of losing white supremacy. It’s based in the American South, as was the Confederacy.

The media needs to wake the hell up. The American government, the American people, and the Democratic Party must see the Trumpist Republican Party for the threat it is.

The FBI and intelligence agencies need to bring the seditionists within it to ground. Democrats must loudly call out its naked embrace of racism and fascism and make clear where this will lead if unchecked.

Every day that goes by without action brings us closer to the new Republican Party’s goal: tearing apart democracy in America and transforming this country into this generation’s version of the Confederacy, complete with its own Lost Cause mythology.

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Is Trumpism This Generation's Version of the Confederacy? (Original Post) dajoki May 2022 OP
YES!! Sadly some of this country have not budged from 1861. overleft May 2022 #1
Yes we are in US Civil War II. A continuation of US Civil War I. Irish_Dem May 2022 #2
And a continuation of McCarthyism. no_hypocrisy May 2022 #3
Civil wars are sooo 2021. CRUSADE is the GOP buzzword now. Runningdawg May 2022 #4
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