Trump's impeachment is about "overturning our way of life," claimed US Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), invoking "Mexican drug cartels" as she ressurected a rallying cry that segregationists like Strom Thurmond often used to fight integration & civil rights.
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“...The call to protect ‘our way of life’ spoke directly to what they considered a unique and practical way to preserve white supremacy,” said historian Stephanie Rolph, who is the author of “Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989.”
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Other Republicans have been resurrecting the old Dixiecrat talking point on "preserving our way of life" in recent weeks, including MS Gov. Phil Bryant, who shared an NRSC video that warned Democrats will destroy "our way of life" if they win the Senate.
(1963 MS campaign ad 👇🏻)
(1963 MS campaign ad 👇🏻)
In the 1960s, the messaging began to change:
“‘Our way of life’ becomes, ‘law & order, something that whites embrace as natural to members of their race and foreign to others," Rolp says.
Trump emphasizes "law & order," too, at least for POC. 👇🏻
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“‘Our way of life’ becomes, ‘law & order, something that whites embrace as natural to members of their race and foreign to others," Rolp says.
Trump emphasizes "law & order," too, at least for POC. 👇🏻
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Nixon White House aid HR Haldeman explained Nixon's use of "law & order" in a 1969 diary:
“You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks,” he wrote. “The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.” 👇🏻
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“You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks,” he wrote. “The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.” 👇🏻
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Trump has benefited from the loyalty of reactionary White America, which he solidifies with his relentless massaging of feelings of White victimization as others have begun to partake in privileges that were once exclusively White perks.👇🏻
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In that political environment, Kelly Loeffler chose to ignore the “law & order” issues at stake in the matters at the heart of impeachment in order to, instead, frame the threat of Trump’s removal as an effort to destroy “our way of life.” 👇🏻
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Historian Stephanie Rolph: “When you have the added bonus of the law on your side, White superiority and exclusivity is normalized and any challenge to it is foreign, including the White people who are challenging it. ..." (cont) 👇🏻
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Historian Rolph: “Trump’s appeal to his supporters is in his unequivocal defense of the rights of the White majority who, in their mind and experience, have been progressively marginalized as the nation has moved toward more inclusivity and access.” 👨🏻💻
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