The Lost Cause
By JAMIL SMITH
... by merely forcing this unnecessary debate, the young Missouri senator isn’t really siding with either side. He’s merely keeping the chaos going. What Hawley understands about Republican politics .. is that being a sore loser sells ...
In the so-called Compromise of 1877, black people were the only ones compromised. Hayes, as he’d promised to do during his campaign, removed the troops and unleashed hell ...
The continued physical violation of black Americans in our modern day remains, to this day, the most visibly horrific consequence of the Hayes compromise ...
... Trump was trying to uphold that standard when last week, he vetoed the $740 billion defense authorization that had .. passed with veto-proof majorities in both congressional houses. One of Trump’s complaints was that the bill .. includes .. Warren’s provision renaming 10 U.S. bases that bear .. names of Confederate officers ...
... Watching Trump avoid the renunciation of white supremacy has been like watching someone trying to pass a kidney stone ... Trump’s own acting Homeland Security secretary, Chad Wolf, warned that he was “particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years,” adding that “they seek to force ideological change in the United States through violence, death, and destruction.” Only days after that, the FBI arrested 13 men who’d schemed to kidnap and possibly kill Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. At the time, Trump brushed the plot aside in favor of continuing to criticize her for her effective response to the coronavirus pandemic. He also invoked the Proud Boys, that violent gang of bigots, during a presidential debate and told them to “stand back and stand by” ...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-new-lost-cause-1108692/
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