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Stop subsidizing suburbs = "abolish the suburbs"

Stop subsidizing cars = "war on cars"

Stop subsidizing beef = "war on cows"

Stop centering Christmas = "war on Christmas"

Seek fair treatment from cops = "war on police"
I hope people can see the through line running through all these examples. It is captured in a quote that ought to serve as the epigraph for this historical epoch: "to the privileged, equality feels like oppression."
To white rural & suburban Americans, the country either prefers/privileges/subsidizes/glorifies white Christian patriarchal culture ... or whites are victims. That dichotomy is at the very core of reactionary thinking.
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