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For folks wondering where MAGA political culture came from, here's an article published in 1969 that sound quite familiar to anyone who's read any of the reporting from Trump rallies or watched Fox or read Breitbart lately. nymag.com/news/features/…
We've always been at war with the 1619 Project. Again, remember that this was written in 1969.
1969. This was written in 1969. About working class white people in New York City.
This is the outer-borough culture that produced Trump. Even though he's not really "of it" because he grew up rich, he's very familiar with this mentality.
Trump's desperate need for the respect of the elites he claims to hate comes to mind here.
George Wallace is a person who is getting noticed more and more these days.
There are only 2 comments that people have made on this 2008 republication. They were posted within the past 11 months. This is what they are.
Many folks have commented that this article basically describes Archie Bunker's character from All in the Family. Very true. Here's a thread I did about the recent reboot of the show, and my own idiosyncratic relationship to the show.
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