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  1. The Southern Strategy. In Trumpism you are seeing the Faustian bargain Republicans made with Southern racial and religious authoritarianism in the name of power. The American South was like South Africa. Segregation was America’s version of Apartheid. When it was ended Southerners were outraged and declared war on the Federal government. Again. Conservatives and the super-rich saw this as their chance to destroy the administrative state. Which you got. The problem is that these authoritarians didn’t forget their own agenda. The conservatives got pushed out of the party…and now the super rich and the former segregationists are ready to destroy democracy in order to keep white Christians in power. Like Clintonsaid in her WP op-ed about 1/6: “Too many American, when given the choice between democracy and whiteness, choose whiteness. Trump shamelessly puts whiteness on the ballot… and American votes for it. Again. Yes. This is who we are and we need to stop trying pretend that Elephant in The Living Room isn’t real. Fifty years of trying to ignore it is what got us here. Fifty years of the GoP playing footsie with white supremacy in return for votes lead to this. When the gods wish to punish us, they give us what we pray for. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes….
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