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Trump Wants Violence
it’s clear, the President needs violence to be re-elected. This is now clear. It’s not just a good thing to distract middle-class whites from COVID, but also is a southern strategy. He has no interest in any racial reconciliation. He does not believe there is a problem, because Donald Trump is either a white supremacist or a fellow traveler. The nation he wants to go back is that of the 1950s, before the crucial 1965 double whammy. The first was the civil rights act, and the second was immigration reform. This race war environment favors him. Or at least he believes this.
This is why he speaks of Joe Biden’s America as a dystopia bordering on a cultural revolution. Why he also encourages militias to continue to engage in violence and threats of violence. Why he also attacks the press because they have portrayed most protests as peaceful. This is factual. But in Trump’s America an honest press would be one to follow the leader, a controlled media. These are both markers of fascism, that continues to creep in.
We know because the president wants to transform American education as well, into one where people are taught to love the country. It is one where things like the 1619 project would be ignored, if not outright buried. In this white Christian nation, constitutional protections would only be afforded to white Christian males. This is the triumph of the will that Nazi Germany also…