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Tom's avatar

Let’s see… person, man, camera, woman, TV. Okay. I’m still good to go.

Dan is saying what many of us who live in the South have known for years. This will be history for most of you, but those of us who actually remember George Wallace, Lester Maddox, and Jim Eastland (and too many others) realize that these days they would be MAGA leaders. There was a moment in the 60s when these guys thought they could push the Dem party in their direction. Thankfully, they were intellectually outgunned by the Kennedy brothers, Johnson and many others.

But they were cold-blooded operators, inured to to physical violence and political apostasy. Today’s Trumpists are direct descendants of these, plus Nixon and Reagan.

But each generation has learned from the earlier ones, and today’s MAGAs aren’t looking just for a generation of dominance or some satisfaction of personal ambition. They are America’s Taliban who want to set our society back 250 years, and reset the Constitution to its original form, minus all the amendments.

History seems inevitable to us: it has already happened and we weren’t there for the uncertainty of outcome. Well, today’s outcome is still uncertain. We have to challenge the MAGAs at every level, for every office in every way we can. Organization, donations, messaging, grass roots action, and never miss an election.

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Beth M's avatar

Agree with all of this. The Tea Party was marching in 4th of July parades in the early 2010s

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