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With this Amy Coney Barrett farce, we need to examine how the GOP and evangelical Right merged to protect white supremacy and aristocratic control, resulting in Donald Trump and rising fascism.
For more on this, pick up my book AMERICAN RULE.
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With this Amy Coney Barrett farce, we need to examine how the GOP and evangelical Right merged to protect white supremacy and aristocratic control, resulting in Donald Trump and rising fascism.
For more on this, pick up my book AMERICAN RULE.
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As I detailed in the latest American Rule lecture, America was founded and designed to support a white supremacist aristocracy and control everyone else.
Recent history has been dictated by the Right's desperate attempt to maintain that control.
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Recent history has been dictated by the Right's desperate attempt to maintain that control.
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With the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, who could shift the balance of power in the Supreme Court for decades, we are seeing the realization of a Right Wing project that has defined American history for the past six decades.
It's about control by a white aristocracy.
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It's about control by a white aristocracy.
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For those still puzzling over the Cult of Trump and the continuing support by white-identity evangelicals despite his obvious foibles and lack of belief, this is the story of how we've arrived at this moment, what their goals are, and what it means for us going forward.
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This story begins in segregated America, a country defined by a strict hierarchical system in which white people were classified as legally and philosophically superior to people of color.
This was a continuation of the white supremacist racism that riddled our founding.
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This was a continuation of the white supremacist racism that riddled our founding.
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Shamefully, segregation existed as the law of the United States of America until the 1950's. It took too long to be broken and was upheld by numerous legal decisions and courts.
Its demise signaled a political shift for the Right from which we are still reeling.
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Its demise signaled a political shift for the Right from which we are still reeling.
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Rather than accept desegregation, white Americans, in the South and elsewhere, doubled-down on their white supremacist beliefs and framed the idea of "race-mixing" as Communist, un-American, and most of all, "sinful" and "against God."
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What had happened was that the ideology of the Confederate States of America still lingered in the US despite propaganda and manipulated histories that claimed racism had ended and white supremacy vanquished.
The Right attacked protesters and people of color like traitors.
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The Right attacked protesters and people of color like traitors.
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Spearheading the assault on desegregation were Southern preachers like Jerry Falwell, who were descendants of Confederate preachers.
Falwell said segregation and white supremacy were God's law and that America should abide by their racist god's commands.
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Falwell said segregation and white supremacy were God's law and that America should abide by their racist god's commands.
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Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. relied on Christianity to gird their appeal, using the gospel of Christ and social justice to appeal to white Americans.
To undermine him, the Evangelical Right called him a heretic and a communist traitor.
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To undermine him, the Evangelical Right called him a heretic and a communist traitor.
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As had been the case for decades, the Right claimed black protesters and the Civil Rights movement were plots by Communists and satanic in nature.
It became un-American to question white supremacy and the segregated society.
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It became un-American to question white supremacy and the segregated society.
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Much of this conspiracy theory propaganda was pushed by the John Birch Society, spearheaded by Fred Koch, father of the Koch Brothers who would later use their father's appeal to white supremacy paranoia to their own ends in order to push hypercapitalism, just like him.
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But openly supporting white supremacy and segregation wasn't popular, and so the Evangelical Right quickly turned to the debate over abortion when it proved a better political cudgel.
But the truth is that the Right was animated by white supremacy at its core.
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But the truth is that the Right was animated by white supremacy at its core.
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With a new culture war disposition, and his white supremacist religion hidden, Jerry Falwell and the Evangelical Right formed a partnership with Ronald Reagan, a racist, anti-counterculture crusader, in order to push their mutual political agendas.
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Together, Reagan and the Evangelical Right would frame liberals as satanic conspirators and anyone who questions America as a traitor or evil in nature.
This new reality made it possible to pursue white supremacy and hypercapitalism in tandem with God on their side.
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This new reality made it possible to pursue white supremacy and hypercapitalism in tandem with God on their side.
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Despite knowing nothing about economics, Reagan was used by hypercapitalists to institute a new top-down economy that would redistribute wealth from the poor to the wealthy, creating a system of inequality and allowing for more control of common people.
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Reagan's economics also intentionally undermined government, vilifying it and privatizing it so that the Right could get around things like court-ordered desegregation, labor laws, and regulations.
It was a matter of re-establishing beyond the reach of government oversight.
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It was a matter of re-establishing beyond the reach of government oversight.
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This "privatization" was a plan that had come to fruition following desegregation. Private schools were created in order to continue white supremacist division and keep the government from enforcing equality.
Privatization is about dismantling government power.
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Privatization is about dismantling government power.
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Of course, this dismantling of government is exactly what the Trump Administration and figures like Betsy DeVos are interested in.
By tearing apart government oversight and public education, they can re-establish control lost do to equal protection.
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By tearing apart government oversight and public education, they can re-establish control lost do to equal protection.
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In the judicial system, the Right concocted "Originalism," or the interpretation of the Constitution that followed the white supremacist aristocratic blueprint of the Founders.
It meant the oppressive, white supremacist past could be reinstated through modern courts.
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It meant the oppressive, white supremacist past could be reinstated through modern courts.
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While the Right dismantles government, figures like Mitch McConnell have been busy stacking the judiciary with judges who are ideologically aligned with this system of Originalism that will trap Americans in an unequal system based on our white supremacist founding.
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Meanwhile, Right Wing supporters are kept in constant fear and paranoia by a media that is tuned to delivering fascistic propaganda that warns them failure to continue voting Republican, even as the inequality grows, would lead to cultural apocalypse.
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Right Wing media avoids conversations about aristocratic control and economic inequality by framing discourse through the lens of perceived persecution.
There's a conspiracy, they tell viewers, against you and your family and your faith. It must be addressed at all costs.
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There's a conspiracy, they tell viewers, against you and your family and your faith. It must be addressed at all costs.
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This fascistic, white supremacist paranoia has been continually stoked by the rich and powerful, like the Koch Brothers, who used their father's conspiratorial messaging to create the Tea Party, which made the Right move further into anti-democratic, libertarian positions.
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This environment made Trumpism, which is fascism, possible. It created an alternate reality where the Right believed it was under imminent attack and needed a strongman at all costs.
He's there to push these anti-government, pro-aristocratic white supremacist policies.
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He's there to push these anti-government, pro-aristocratic white supremacist policies.
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Trump's administration is where white-identity Christianity, Right Wing paranoids, and hypercapitalists obsessed with dismantling government, come together to form an anti-democratic, fascistic partnership to destroy government while expediting power and control.
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With white-identity evangelicals, Trump is giving them preferred status, pushing their agenda, and continually trumpeting their perceived persecution as a means of maintaining and consolidating power.
And it's all in support of Neo-Confederate ideology.
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And it's all in support of Neo-Confederate ideology.
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With hypercapitalists like DeVos, Trump is allowing them to undermine the public business of government, privatize it for profit, and dismantle it to expedite their own profit and control over the country.
It's no coincidence his people are inherently opposed to government.
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It's no coincidence his people are inherently opposed to government.
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Amy Coney Barrett is the crown-jewel of this decades' long operation to install judges in order to destroy equality, democracy, and institute a white-identity evangelical system that supports and promote unequal hypercapitalism.
This is what they've been working for.
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This is what they've been working for.
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This project isn't just about abortion or even white supremacy. It's about control at all costs, about rewinding the clock to a time before diversity and inclusivity and democracy.
It's about establishing a system of control that can't be ended.
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It's about establishing a system of control that can't be ended.
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Roe v. Wade is at stake, but so are laws that forbid child labor and schools and businesses from engaging in blatant discrimination.
It is the culmination of a war over reality and a fight to re-establish blatant and unrepentant, racist, aristocratic control.
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It is the culmination of a war over reality and a fight to re-establish blatant and unrepentant, racist, aristocratic control.
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What's at stake, with this election, with the Court, with this political moment of crisis, is literally a determination of whether we will be free and equal or if white supremacist aristocratic control will be reinstituted in totality and kept from challenge.
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It's been incremental, but we're at the moment of reckoning with this Right Wing project.
Trump is the culmination and his anti-democratic, fascistic movement is a means of realizing, after all this work, a closed system of power that could last for generations.
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Trump is the culmination and his anti-democratic, fascistic movement is a means of realizing, after all this work, a closed system of power that could last for generations.
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This isn't hyperbole, it's not an overreaction. This is the modern history of America, a time in which the Right has sought and fought for reestablishing white supremacist aristocracy in the face of changing demographics.
These are the stakes. Pure and simple.
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These are the stakes. Pure and simple.
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