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Mar 6 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
“Proud Southern Christian” truck rolling coal in Salem, **Oregon** today. This was the flag it was flying.
Granted, this was in *South* Salem, but I don’t that’s what “Southern” was intended to refer to.
On the recent history of that flag and its political meaning. curatormagazine.com/elizabeth-char…
I went for a walk in a crowded park today and I’d estimate that 10-20% of the white men I saw were wearing hats or shirts that featured the all-black American flag. Maybe they just liked the aesthetics of it? buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/opinion/…
Ironically, just yesterday I commented to a friend that I’ve seen many fewer trucks driving around town brandishing huge Trump flags lately. Apparently though, the iconography of the far right has not vanished from the public sphere yet.

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Mar 7
In 1968 a group called the National Youth Alliance circulated this document on college campuses. It complained about left wing indoctrination by professors and a progressive student culture that stifled the free speech of more conservative students. Image
The organization was committed to 4 central propositions. 1) defending the heritage of Western Civilization. 2) what its defenders today would call "race realism." 3) a rejection of liberalism. 4) a willingness to take action to fight against America's enemies. Image
Once one dug a bit deeper into who the NYA was, one would discover that they were neo-Nazis. The guy who wrote The Turner Diaries got his start in the NYA.
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Mar 6
This is such a throwback to Anita Bryant era homophobia.
A reminder that the right has called accountability “cancellation” for a long time now.
The kids were alright back in 1978.
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Mar 6
I’m sure Trump’s favorite “election integrity” expert, Hans von Spakovsky at the Heritage Foundation, will immediately begin looking into this.
The GOP campaign to delegitimize US elections includes a huge array of people, from the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys who supplied the muscle on Jan 6, to the cynical operatives like Roger Stone, to the suit and tie anti-democrats at the Heritage Foundation. propublica.org/article/no-dem…
Funny story about the Heritage Foundation. They currently have a fellowship funded by & named after the son of Countess Guardabassi, who got that title from Mussolini & who generously funded America’s leading antisemites and neo-Nazis in the 1960s and 70s. heritage.org/staff/ken-mcin…
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Mar 5
You’ll never guess what his pinned tweet is.
A 200+ year old, decontextualized quote from Hamilton that presumably explains our present moment.
It’s even threaded with another 200 year old, deconrextualized quote from another country entirely.
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Mar 4
Highly recommend this story about Democrats in rural America. It's about DuBois, Pa. I grew up about 60 miles south of there in a similarly small town. I know many folks who still live there, and this account rang very true to me. politico.com/news/magazine/…
While polarization is a key part of this story, it's important that we recognize the *asymmetrical* nature of that polarization. I talk about that a bit in this thread about the FB pages of the Dems and the GOP in the County I grew up in.
Irrationally hating Democrats (even when they're their neighbors or friends) has become an increasingly central feature of the identities of many small town white Americans. It's perhaps Trump's greatest gift to the GOP and they have learned the lesson well.
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Mar 4
With RT in the news, it’s a good time to talk about how populists across the political spectrum can allow their skepticism about “the MSM” to curdle into naïve credulity. This thread is about the devolution of Ed Schultz, from heartland populist to anti-democratic propagandist.
When your brand is “authentic truth teller who’s not beholden to anyone,” this is NOT how you answer a question like this.
Might be a time to reflect on the folks on the left who either credulously fell for or opportunistically amplified this transparently cynical and fabricated “story” back in 2019 and 2020.
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