The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The evidence continues to mount that Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party is the party of the Secesh.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- Thom hears a rhyme
From another time
When men in hoods
Roamed the woods,
With crosses ablaze
Through nights and days.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Anita Chabria conjugates the latest con from Donald Trump’s Ministry of Truth.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.
Stray Thought 0
Today’s Republican Party does not want to govern.
It wants to dictate.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that
Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .
Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The Secesh are rising again after all these years, but doing so oh so politely.
Details at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David comments on Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash–you will pardon the expression–America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racial superiority that was fabricated to rationalize it.
Establishmentarians 0
Via The Sacramento Bee, Bryan Clark takes a look behind the robes of America’s establishmentarians. A snippet; follow the link for context.
Also, too . . . .
Metamorphosis 0
David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority that was fabricated to justify excuse it continue to exact their toll. (Warning: Language.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses the current gerrymandering struggle going on in Texas. (Warning: Short commercial at about the two minute mark.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a longer article about some of the ways in which J. D. Vance tries to twist history, Yastreblyansky makes a telling observation: that, in attacking birthright citizenship, today’s Republican party, AKA the Party of the New Secesh, echoes the arguments of pre-civil war slaveholders.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Per the link, they haven’t yet identified the aspiring Klansman.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but If Often Rhymes”* 0
AL.com’s J. D. Crowe visualizes a rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.