William Lindsey Aug 8, 2025

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
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 8, 2025

"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.

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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
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Aug 8, 2025

"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
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"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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