Why Conservatives Are Obsessed With Erasing History-Except For The Confederacy

[MarcATL]

White supremacy is what white supremacy is OP.

 

[Coyote]

MAGA are modern-day Confederates. They can all die.

Well…they are certainly making racism and misogyny cool again aren’t they?

 

[Concerned American]

MAGA are modern-day Confederates. They can all die.

Last I looked, the congress was controlled by republicans, the POTUS is a republican and constitutionalists are the majority of the court. I believe that would make YOU the confederate, donkey.

 

[Coyote]

Last I looked, the congress was controlled by republicans, the POTUS is a republican and constitutionalists are the majority of the court. I believe that would make YOU the confederate, donkey.

Why do Republicans love the pro-slavery Confederate flag so much?

 

[Concerned American]

Why do Republicans love the pro-slavery Confederate flag so much?

LOL, democrats founded the KKK, you are barking up the wrong tree. Lincoln was a republican. Keep projecting, Saul Alinsky would be proud of you.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Thinker101

Why do Republicans love the pro-slavery Confederate flag so much?

That doesn’t work anymore. Sorry.

 

[mudwhistle]

... right into the ground. We will take care of you then ourselves.

 

[DonGlock26]

Photos and histories of people of color, women, and the LGBTQ+ community are being purged, and nearly every day some new erasure is being uncovered. When caught in the act, the Trump administration has offered up the claim that these cases were merely mistakes—“malicious compliance” from bad actors within the government.

But the excuses don’t pass the smell test, since Trump and his allies—like multibillionaire Elon Musk and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—have well documented histories of open bigotry against anyone who isn’t a straight, wealthy, white man.

But this isn’t just a Trump thing. For decades, conservatives have embraced the mythology of the Lost Cause.

The right is in a quandary. It has political power, but it still cannot force millions of Americans to concede to the white supremacy that motivates much of conservative politics. That’s why it’s so driven to erase history.

Why conservatives are obsessed with erasing history—except the Confederacy

The Trump administration has spent the last month on a tear, using President Donald Trump’s newfound power in multiple departments and agencies for a goal that seems bewildering at first glance: deleting history. Under the guise of eliminating...

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Another lost cause. In a long line of lost causes.

 

[BluesLegend]

Why do Republicans love the pro-slavery Confederate flag so much?

Riiiight, which party slapped the Confederate flag all over their campaign materials (cough) the Clintons (cough). You people need to be constantly reminded of the facts.

Also nice BROAD BRUSH attempt. How many Republicans "love the pro-slavery Confederate flag"? 2? 20? Post your source or data, mocking with then commence.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Come get me...

 

[skews13]

Well…they are certainly making racism and misogyny cool again aren’t they?

I'm amazed how far they thought they could go with this.

I'm not surprised that maga trash think this will be a permanent situation.

 

[Mac1958]

Another lost cause. In a long line of lost causes.

This goes back to the fact that they're just overcompensating on EVERYTHING.

They're eliminating anything they can think of that causes them the slightest discomfort, and then going out of their way to spike the football and alienate anyone who doesn't think like they do.

They're not considering the potential downside to any of their behaviors, evidently because they figure (like good jihadis) that God is on their side and has their back. Or something.

I guess we'll see.

 

[22lcidw]

MAGA are modern-day Confederates. They can all die.

And the beauty of it is the false crap you spew will eventually have enough terrorists who will acquire true WMD's, and many will be killed and what is worse linger before they die or survive in agony. No or endless books y the superior feeling ones. We will end up a century or more before all of the social justice rights achieved. Men are fools to protect those who screw them over.

 

[berg80]

Nope. We're good...

I’d like to make one additional observation this weekend. Not long after Trump launched his attack on birthright citizenship, the legal scholar Evan D. Bernick wrote a piece for the Law and Political Economy Project on the faulty logic, bad history and anti-constitutional orientation of the president’s executive order. The 14th Amendment, he said, is clear:

The Citizenship Clause is at once a monument to a world-historically successful democratic struggle against domination and a means of its continuance. It promises birthright citizenship to all who would otherwise be subjected to the arbitrary power of regulatory and enforcement mechanisms over which they have no say.

Bernick made another point I want to expand on. He wrote that the administration’s attack on birthright citizenship is “downstream of a constitutionalism that resembles that of the antebellum period.” This “reactionary constitutionalism,” he continued, “is defined by unchecked power over racialized populations which are deemed unfit to govern themselves.”

I want to add that the Trump administration’s vision of a reactionary constitutionalism (if it is even constitutionalism) is reminiscent of the illiberal constitutionalism of the Confederate States of America.

The Confederacy had a constitution and it wasn’t simply a modification of the federal Constitution with an explicit embrace of “compact theory” and ironclad protections for slavery. “The Constitution of the Confederate States,” the legal scholars Mark A. Graber and Howard Gillman wrote in their volume on American constitutionalism, “was the world’s first example of an illiberal constitution, a constitution unambiguously committed to maintaining and perpetuating illiberal practices.”

Opinion | The Repercussions of Trump v. United States May Finally Be Hitting Justice Roberts

What is the chief justice getting at?

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Kinda puts the nostalgic desires at the heart of MAGA in context.

 

[berg80]

They're eliminating anything they can think of that causes them the slightest discomfort, and then going out of their way to spike the football and alienate anyone who doesn't think like they do.

Not just alienating them, in the case of judges impeaching them. Just as he has done with IG's the goal is to remove legal obstacles in the way of absolute power.

 

[berg80]

Why do Republicans love the pro-slavery Confederate flag so much?

It's not a coincidence that MAGA began with a birtherism dog whistle to white supremacists signaling trump's election would mean they had an ally in the WH.

 

[Mac1958]

Not just alienating them, in the case of judges impeaching them. Just as he has done with IG's the goal is to remove legal obstacles in the way of absolute power.

The authoritarian template.

 

[JGalt]

MAGA are modern-day Confederates. They can all die.

Are you going to set your Tesla on fire now?

That'll show them.

 

[Coyote]

I'm amazed how far they thought they could go with this.

I'm not surprised that maga trash think this will be a permanent situation.

MAGA: bring back segregation.

 

[Coyote]

The authoritarian template.

Look no further than Putin, Orbin and Netanyahu for eexamples of how it is done or being done. Controlling the judiciary, the spread of information through the media and free speech is required.