You should REALLY listen to the Clarence Thomas speech I linked above. He’s a titan of political thought with unmatched clarity. You never need to wonder what he’s talking about, and you only need a dictionary and a basic understanding of American civics to understand him. He doesn’t speak in euphemisms, which is one of the ways you can spot a woke person. He explains why modern progressivism is incompatible with classical liberalism so much better than I ever could.
Yeah, and I can’t think of any major MAGA voting bloc that’s explicitly white supremacist besides Groypers, and I don’t think they’re as big as their online presence indicates. I doubt they even bother to vote in numbers and they certainly aren’t driving policy in the Republican party. Having spent a few years splitting my time between Maine and Tennessee for work long ago, my general impression is that even a lot of the confederate flag waving people just don’t like black people (and probably other groups too), but they aren’t out there trying to advance and implement policies that are white supremacist in any direct sense.
When I think of race-based public policies, slavery obviously comes up in the USA, but so does German National Socialism. Slavery is easy to understand. One person owns another person, which deprives the slave of all of their universal rights explicitly spelled out in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. There was a lot of political pressure to include all kinds of gimmicks to benefit the slave-states, too. The 3/5’ths compromise is a good example of how politics really functioned. The slave states wanted slaves to be counted in the census to increase their political power in Congress. The classical liberals rejected this and fought for universal human rights.
German National Socialism is best thought of as a race-based wealth extraction scam executed through legal channels and racial wars of conquest and plunder. It is harder to understand than simply owning another person in a similar way to how Enron is harder to understand than armed robbery.
The fact that you’re STILL repeating this media hoax after ALL these years is pretty wild. All you need to do is listen to Trump speak to hear him say that he wasn’t talking about the white supremacists. It’s right there in the public record, spoken right after “fine people on both sides”, but you’ve somehow missed that undisputed fact for years.
Like I said, you need to name someone or an organization, but even then I can’t crawl inside their heads and explain their thought processes to you.
The most basic explanation I can give you is that Republicans were founded on classical liberal ideas, meaning universal and unalienable rights for all US Citizens, with no racial, religious, or even sexual preference tests for obtaining US Citizenship. They’ve wavered from that path a bit over the last 180-ish years, just as the Democrats have wavered a bit from the path of race-based public policies over the last 200 ish years.
Republicans advocate for universal rights and equal protection under the law.
Democrats advocate for an expanding conception of “rights”. The right to declare yourself a member of the opposite sex and then go to women’s prison is an example of a newly-concocted “right” here in Maine. The “right” to reparations is another, as is the “right” to any consumer good that requires other people to produce it for you.
But seriously, I can’t explain an undefined group of people to you, so I just gave you more history lessons.
