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All right.
We need to talk about how Trump and the GOP are marketing themselves as the Southern Fire-Eaters who spurred secession and the Civil War and how that time bizarrely mirrors our own.
Here's a taste of what I write about in AMERICAN
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To understand, we need to look at those forces and the people who benefited and cultivated them.
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These threats we're seeing now have a very, very similar flavor and should concern people.
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They're warning rivals that if things continue down this path, there will be trouble.
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These are messages and threats. Losing ground democratically, these interests are assuring they're willing to be violent.
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It was like this pre-Civil War, with developing news outlets that led to Southerners posturing in order to cement their support.
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It felt a lot like this moment.
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And that conversation begins with the Founding and why we're in this crisis right now.
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And when the South said they were defending the Founders, they weren't completely wrong. We have to wrestle with this.
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That's our foundation and we need to break it.
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They were advocating for a continuation of Founding ideals.
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It was a fight to continue the ugly concessions from the founding.
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This is the same fight we're having now. That intentional inequality.
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It was an apocalyptic rejection of shared society.
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It's an angry denial of reality.
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It's a natural evolution to this insidious method of control.
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As long as the wealthy and powerful continue to cling to their advantages via conspiracies and fearmongering, it will only get worse
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This reevaluation is what they're frightened of, what they can't allow to happen.
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Things are not okay, but we can back away from the cliff. It begins with recognizing the cliff is there and what it represents.
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