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 (DIR) Post #AhgWy0WOG3GUIoN6Po by jrefior@hachyderm.io
       2024-05-08T14:56:04Z
       
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       "Leaders of the slaveholding South called the Declaration [of Independence] 'a most pernicious falsehood.' South Carolina’s John C. Calhoun called the very idea of equal rights a 'false doctrine.'.."The influential 'second' Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish as well as anti-Black, which was why, unlike the original Klan, it flourished outside the South.. Christian nationalism has been a powerful force throughout America’s history"https://wapo.st/3QonhLY—#GiftArticle
       
 (DIR) Post #AhgWy1WmW5AjQJYvfE by jrefior@hachyderm.io
       2024-05-08T15:09:25Z
       
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       "He [Trump] made his debut as presidential aspirant on an unabashed white supremacist platform, championing the birther conspiracy that America’s first Black president was not in fact an American. Riding that issue alone, he catapulted to the front of the Republican pack.."Whether his debut as a white supremacist was opportunism or sprang from conviction hardly matters.. white supremacy has been his calling card, and white nationalists have become the core of his movement"—#uspol