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30 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
You’re embarrassing yourself, Kevin. Your party has embraced authoritarian white nationalism as a “base strategy,” defended treasonous confederate monuments and absorbed the old Dixiecrats. Teaching accurate history is what a mature country does. And you have no clue what CRT is.
Query your members. Kevin.
And read a book. This quote should help get you started:

“White Democrats will desert their party in droves the minute it becomes a black party.”
Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority, 1969

forbes.com/sites/chrislad…
This is why we need better history instruction. So we don’t have to keep explaining the same things over and over again on Twitter… history.com/news/how-the-p…

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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
1 Jul
There's a symmetry between the Republican push to remove the Voting Rights Act's protections of voters of color and the frantic drive to protect the whitewashed history that has prevailed since the confederate generals dictated how we would remember the civil war & its aftermath.
Taken as a whole, the moves by the six Roberts court conservatives and Republicans in statehouses, localities and congress would banish all memory of America's abuse of nonwhite people and then freeze in place every advantage that this historic abuse created for white citizens.
It all goes back to this fear of demographic change and the drive to protect a constituency that John Roberts and Alito seem to be as focused on as McConnell and Trump: white conservative Christians, who they seem to believe deserve the advantages, as the "real" Americans.
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29 Jun
Important read by ⁦@JRubinBlogger⁩ —“The most authoritarian-inclined Americans tend to be over age 45, live in rural areas and don’t have a college degree. This is the profile of the GOP base, not coincidentally.” washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
A Morning Consult poll finds that “26% of the U.S. population qualified as highly right-wing authoritarian, Morning Consult research found, twice the share of the No. 2 countries, Canada and Australia.”
And the core of the authoritarian movement on the American right, (which frankly is tipping into fascist territory per folks as ideologically disparate as @BillKristol & @mehdirhasan) is among conservative white evangelicals, as @PRRIpoll researcher @robertpjones explains:
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28 Jun
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24 Jun
Defund the police? Republicans at this stage refuse to DEFEND the police who fought the insurrectionists in hand-to-hand combat, and they want to defund the FBI and the military over a made-up, twisted version of an 80s legal theory, because they hate the idea of anti-racism.
And their media is hiding these facts from their captive audience…
“Defund the military” is literally the Trumpist right’s new thing. And they’re using this fake but ugly war against anti-racism as their cudgel. Take that in for a moment. Fight anti-racism by defunding our troops! politico.com/news/2021/06/2…
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21 Jun
Seems like one reason Republicans are so eager to build a wall around the American history memory hole is to quash the next generation’s ability to connect their drive to crush nonwhite voting and the confederacy and its progeny’s war against black multiracial democracy.
And of course, they’d love to drive a wedge through the heart of the Justice for George Floyd coalition, while amping up Trump voters ahead of 2022. As usual, it’s all about power.
And miss me please with the “but it was the Democrats who done it!” No shite, Sherlock. Black people know that. And we deeply feel the irony that the party most Blacks joined after the civil war totally rebranded itself, the same way they’re now rebranding critical race theory.
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21 Jun
This wasn't centuries ago. It was 16 years before Ronald Reagan was elected president (after launching his campaign, quite decisively, in Philadelphia, Mississippi). teenvogue.com/story/mississi… via @TeenVogue
And what were these murders -- which were three of many, many more lynchings in Mississippi, mainly of Black activists that summer -- about? Stopping Black Americans from voting and thus being full citizens... This has been a theme of American history from day one. ImageImage
The sheer savagery of it puts the lie to the notion that America has never been, a racist country. Misuse, abuse and hatred of Black people, and anyone else who would stand with Black and other nonwhite people in favor of equality and justice has run deep in the soil since 1619. ImageImage
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