You do know you're talking like a white person, yes? You're right, Trump is unique in how openly anti-democratic he is, but the history of anti-democracy in the U.S. goes back to the founding. Democracy showed strength after the Civil War, before the same old suspects shut it down by killing Reconstruction and instituting Jim Crow in the…
You do know you're talking like a white person, yes? You're right, Trump is unique in how openly anti-democratic he is, but the history of anti-democracy in the U.S. goes back to the founding. Democracy showed strength after the Civil War, before the same old suspects shut it down by killing Reconstruction and instituting Jim Crow in the South and a dressed-up version in most other places. Democracy made a comeback after WWII, culminating in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s -- after which the real long-term backlash got underway. There have been some steps forward in the course of the long slide back to a (long-gone if not totally imaginary) world where white Christian men were in charge, but it's not hard to see how we got to where we are.
You do know you're talking like a white person, yes? You're right, Trump is unique in how openly anti-democratic he is, but the history of anti-democracy in the U.S. goes back to the founding. Democracy showed strength after the Civil War, before the same old suspects shut it down by killing Reconstruction and instituting Jim Crow in the South and a dressed-up version in most other places. Democracy made a comeback after WWII, culminating in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s -- after which the real long-term backlash got underway. There have been some steps forward in the course of the long slide back to a (long-gone if not totally imaginary) world where white Christian men were in charge, but it's not hard to see how we got to where we are.