Stephen Robinson and Paul Waldman comment on Trump's curious attachment to a Confederacy to which he has no ties as a dyed-in-the-wool sool of Queens, New York, with recent immigrant ancestors:

"Trump’s fondness for the Confederacy has little to do with southern 'heritage' — he’s a native New Yorker who never lived below the Mason-Dixie line until he became a permanent Mar-a-Lago resident in 2020."

#Trump #Confederacy #WhiteSupremacy #racism #Queens #NewYork
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-confederacy-monuments-lost-caus

Trump's Confederacy rises again

The Lost Cause doesn't seem all that lost anymore.

Public Notice

"Trump is a son of Queens, a Northerner through-and-through. There’s no public record telling us when the light of the angel Jefferson Davis fell upon him and he knew that the Confederacy’s cause was his own, but it sure is now."

And not just Trump: scads of Northerners whose ancestors fought the Confederacy have now jumped on the Confederate train after the double election of the first Black president.

#Trump #Confederacy #WhiteSupremacy #racism #Queens #NewYork
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/who-asked-for-this-two-stories

Who Asked For This? Two Stories.

Honoring a Confederate traitor and an AI ghost of a dead kid: Things we didn't ask for and don't want.

The Cross Section

"Simply put, the Trump administration is obviously racist and is actively pursuing a white supremacist project. …

The Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal, and just about every other major outlet haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past six months:"

~ Chance Phillips

#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #media #MediaFail #MediaBlackout
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-cares-white-supremacists-are-calling-the-shots-now/

Nobody Cares That White Supremacists Are Calling the Shots Now

Darren Beattie, a speechwriter for Trump early during his first term, posted the following in October 2024, a month before Trump would win re-election: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women

Liberal Currents

"The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots."

#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #racism #media #MediaFail #MediaBlackout
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@wdlindsy

While Chance Phillips isn't wrong, the reason the major media in the USA haven't called the racists out is because the media in the USA is, in large part, owned and operated by the racist Nazi bigots. It's not just the Hitler loving New York Times. It's most major newspapers, most radio stations, the entirety of broadcast television and most of cable television.

The Nazis knew what they were doing when Reagan neutered the FCC. This coup is 50 years in the making.

@troy_frizzell @wdlindsy

It's not the first time that media moguls platformed Nazis to cater to the wealthy's desire to evade taxation & kneecap democracy.

For Hitler, it was a Newspaper Axis determined to keep aristocracy on top, no matter the cost.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300256420/the-newspaper-axis/

The Newspaper Axis

How six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II  “A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today’s right...

Yale University Press

@wdlindsy

It's an often overlooked aspect that motivates White Supremacy: greed.

First & foremost bigotry, White Supremacy is a tool to enrich the favored few.

If you underpay teachers & nurses, you get rich.

If you don't pay black & brown people at all, you get rich.

If you keep an entire generation in perpetual debt, you get rich.

If you keep immigrants chained to back breaking precarious jobs, you get rich.

If you keep people worried about food & housing prices, you get rich.

@Npars01 Thanks for that valuable reminder. I really like Edward Baptist's history of slavery in the Americas The Half Has Never Been Told because it's so clear about how the driving force of the system was capitalism. He shows so well how American slavery was integrated into a world capitalistic market in which people in many different places enriched themselves via slavery and plantations in the Americas.
@wdlindsy @Npars01
Stop conflating capitalism with White Supremacy, please. They are not the same, no matter what Bernie Sanders thinks.

@Okanogen @wdlindsy

Capitalism and White Supremacy have a closely intertwined history.

Agreed, they aren't the same thing, but they do feed & bolster each other.

White supremacists believe that the prosperity of capitalism belongs to them alone.

Capitalism is distorted & kneecapped to ensure that white supremacists keep their wealth, status, prestige, power, and control by keeping everyone else down.