Erika Sumner
William Lindsey 
PugJesusBack when the Republicans got fanmail from Marx
@ricardoharvin Definitely far beyond. I’d argue we’re not living with the aftereffects of the #SouthernStrategy; we’re living inside its end state & nothing less than active participation by our citizens can hope to save us & our remaining civil liberties.
We live in interesting times. The dissolution of the alliance between white US Catholics, their bishops appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict, and white evangelicals is going to make for some serious fireworks, when the Republican party for some years now has managed to convince white Catholics that voting GOP was their religious duty.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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What was unexpected: an American pope who would begin breaking that alliance and insisting that the US Catholic bishops, a majority of whom are comfortable with the alliance, start questioning whether it reflects real Christian, real Catholic, values. Ditto for the challenge to the 6 in 10 white Catholics who have voted three times for Trump.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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What has energized this movement all along has been resistance to rights for people of color, women, and LGBTQ people. This alliance laid the foundation for someone like Trump to come along and claim that God is using him to save the nation — when anyone with any real sense of Christian faith knows how blasphemous and ludicrous that claim is.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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In the 1970s, with white Southern evangelicals outraged that the Democratic party had passed laws recognizing the rights of people of color, the US Catholic bishops made a fateful move: they allied themselves with those white evangelicals and created a Religious Right movement that became an arm of the Republican party.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans
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Krzysztof SakrejdaMake 2026 the year we have a proper accounting for the #SouthernStrategy and do reconstruction right.
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOn #ThisDayInHistory in 1968, #RichardNixon won election as president. His combination of #liberal policies, #anticommunism, and the #SouthernStrategy's appeal to #racists created an easy comeback victory. Lessons learnt in the #Goldwater & #Nixon runs laid a template for Reagan.
Nonilex#Republicans have called for greater #police crackdowns in #cities since at least the 1965 #WattsRiots in #LosAngeles.
President Richard #Nixon won the White House in 1968 after campaigning on a “law & order” agenda to appeal to #white voters in northern cities alongside overtures to white Southerners as part of his “#SouthernStrategy.”
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
"That explains why, over time, at the national level, Republican candidates had no choice but to echo all three of those dog whistles in order to win. Those who did not or could not lost."
~ Ibid.
Maxwell and Shields are describing something that has been building a long time now. Blaming "the Democrats" and Biden and Harris for what has been building a long time now is not only misleading: it's outright dumb.