MAGA !
This from Columbia University in 2019.....
When we had fascism in the United States
"In one of the political science classes I took in college, we were told that one of the big questions about U.S. politics, compared to Europe, is why we’ve had no socialism and no fascism. Sure, there have been a few pockets of socialism where they’ve won a few elections, and there was Huey Long in 1930s Louisiana, but nothing like Europe where the Left and the Right have ruled entire countries and where, at least for a time, socialist and fascism were the ideologies of major parties. That’s what we were taught. But, as Whitehead and Gopnik (and Henry Louis Gates, the author of the book that Gopnik was reviewing) remind us, that’s wrong. We have had fascism here for a long time—in the post-reconstruction South.
"Maybe the U.S. South just seemed unique, and the legacy of slavery distracted historians and political scientists so much they didn’t see the connection to fascism, a political movement with a nationalistic racist ideology that used violence to take and maintain power in a democratic system. It’s stunning in retrospect that Huey Long was discussed as a proto-fascist without any recognition that the entire South had a fascist system of government."
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The Wild West novel and Clint Eastwood movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales" was Confederate ideology and postwar revenge propaganda, written by a former KKK member who wrote Gov. George Wallace’s 1963 inaugural address that included the infamous line, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” Author of the novel took the name Forest Carter (from Nathan Bedford Forest a KKK founder) and he came to believe Wallace was too soft against blacks so he moved to Texas.
The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.
www.dissentmagazine.org
"The historian Heather Cox Richardson also finds the connection between South and West troubling—but accurate. In "How the South Won the Civil War," Richardson shows how once-defeated ideas and politics stayed alive and then flourished by moving west. “In the West,” she writes, “Confederate ideology took on a new life, and from there, over the course of the next 150 years, it came to dominate America.” White Southerners continued their resistance to federal incursions on white supremacy through a geographic shift to what they saw as “the only free place left in America.” They believed that Reconstruction-era “Republicans who passed laws to protect freed people were not advancing equality; they were destroying liberty.” The mythology (and she stresses that most of it was myth) of the American cowboy took on the individualism that once belonged to the Jeffersonian yeoman. Both stock characters were capable of heroic feats of grit, pluck, and determination."
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There's lots more from where this comes and it's time to turn our attention to it. Because what once was subregional or regional has become national. It's a grim progression that has its demonstrated newfound national strength and dominance. Indeed, I know my enemy.
