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Tue Aug 26, 2025, 05:13 PM Aug 2025

'Which Way, American Man?'

‘Which Way, American Man?’

August 26, 2025 at 10:12 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/08/26/which-way-american-man/


The Atlantic says the Department of Homeland Security posted an image promoting Roosevelt’s New Deal that shows Uncle Sam standing at a crossroads which is annotated: “Which way, American man?”

“It’s a reference to the title of a canonical text for neo-Nazis and white nationalists, the 1978 book by William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man?, which depicts Jews, Black people, and nonwhite immigrants as an existential threat to the United States.”
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