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This, precisely, is the problem:
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/america-becomes-outraged-only-when?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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We live in interesting times. The dissolution of the alliance between white US Catholics, their bishops appointed by Popes John Paul II and Benedict, and white evangelicals is going to make for some serious fireworks, when the Republican party for some years now has managed to convince white Catholics that voting GOP was their religious duty.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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What was unexpected: an American pope who would begin breaking that alliance and insisting that the US Catholic bishops, a majority of whom are comfortable with the alliance, start questioning whether it reflects real Christian, real Catholic, values. Ditto for the challenge to the 6 in 10 white Catholics who have voted three times for Trump.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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What has energized this movement all along has been resistance to rights for people of color, women, and LGBTQ people. This alliance laid the foundation for someone like Trump to come along and claim that God is using him to save the nation — when anyone with any real sense of Christian faith knows how blasphemous and ludicrous that claim is.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #CivilRights #LGBTQ #women
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In the 1970s, with white Southern evangelicals outraged that the Democratic party had passed laws recognizing the rights of people of color, the US Catholic bishops made a fateful move: they allied themselves with those white evangelicals and created a Religious Right movement that became an arm of the Republican party.
#Trump #JDVance #PopeLeo #Catholic #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernStrategy #ReligiousRight #Republicans
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#Republicans have called for greater #police crackdowns in #cities since at least the 1965 #WattsRiots in #LosAngeles.
President Richard #Nixon won the White House in 1968 after campaigning on a “law & order” agenda to appeal to #white voters in northern cities alongside overtures to white Southerners as part of his “#SouthernStrategy.”
#Trump #WhiteSupremacy #law #MilitaryState #autocracy #democracy #CivilRights #coup #TrumpCoup2
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The #Republican #SouthernStrategy
A #calculated #appeal to #whitesupremacists. It's the #Racism and #Misogyny, Stupid
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The #Republican #SouthernStrategy
A #calculated #appeal to #whitesupremacists. It's the #Racism and #Misogyny, Stupid
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The #Republican #SouthernStrategy
A #calculated #appeal to #whitesupremacists. It's the #Racism and #Misogyny, Stupid
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The #Republican #SouthernStrategy
A #calculated #appeal to #whitesupremacists. It's the #Racism and #Misogyny, Stupid
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@black_intellect #SlaveStates in the expanded ‘#NewSouth ‘ only differ from the #OldSouth in the TYPES of #slavery (also expanded).
#SaveAmerica from #WhiteSupremacy and the #SouthernStrategy of #BananaRepublicans.
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14/23 #RichardMNixon, the Republican California senator (though born in NY) who had been vice-president under #DwightDEisenhower, ran for president back in 1960, losing to #JFK.
He lost the 1964 nomination to #BarryGoldwater (noted as a significant conservative shift for the Republican party).
Nixon ran again in 1968 and (finally) won — but just barely; to strengthen his administration, he needed an angle, coming up with his #SouthernStrategy.
Nixon strategically powered the #PartySwitch
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Trump lost a 2000 presidential primary in California (though born in NY), and needed an angle for 2016.
He ran Nixon/Reagan #SouthernStrategy. "Make America Great Again!" His #ElectoralMap is dotted with oases of Blue cities in seas of rural Red.
Another loser won - barely - with help from good ol' #WhiteSupremacists.
He went back to that well in 2020 and got a well-earned, resounding trouncing. (That's TWO popular votes lost!)
Ergo, #Jan6th #insurrection.
(Please #indicthimalready!)
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14/23 #RichardMNixon, the Republican California senator (though born in NY) who had been vice-president under #DwightDEisenhower, ran for president back in 1960, losing to #JFK.
He lost the 1964 nomination to #BarryGoldwater (noted as a significant conservative shift for the Republican party).
Nixon ran again in 1968 and (finally) won — but just barely; to strengthen his administration, he needed an angle, coming up with his #SouthernStrategy.
Nixon strategically powered the #PartySwitch