If there was ever any doubt about what the MAGAT crowd found in Donald Trumpling, it has got be be clear now with a massive $45 million military parade in Washington, for Trump's birthday.
Oh well, what's $45 million? Just the cost of Trump's Tesla coughed up by Qatar.
So we'll have tanks on Pennsylvania Avenue, where once the Grand Army of the Republic marched in review to adoring crowds, the soldiers having crushed the armies and banners of slavery, having won what was until that day the most righteous war ever fought--a war fought by free men and freed slaves on behalf of those who could not fight because they were enslaved.
Not until the Third Reich and Hitler had a more odious enemy been vanquished.
But now, what will the American army be celebrating?
Stalin held a big parade in Red Square to rally patriotic fervor before sending out the Red Army to defend against the invading Nazi horde, but ever since then, the goose stepping soldiers in Red Square have simply celebrated might and projected intimidation.
Now, Mr. Trump rallies his Lost Cause hordes, renaming forts in honor of Confederate Generals, who fought to keep people enslaved. These Generals, Braxton Bragg, A.P. Hill, were by any definition, traitors. But now they have MAGA forts named after them, because they are, you know part of our "heritage," like lynching and Wounded Knee and My Lai.
Personally, some parts of our national heritage, I could do without, or at least would prefer to see examined with eyes wide open rather than wide shut.
It's no secret, those who fought to destroy a free and fair election on January 6, 2021, fought to start another Civil War. These men who Trump calls freedom fighters were fighting for a renewal of the Confederacy and for the "Lost Cause," of white supremacy, and the stars and bars and slaves in the fields singing "Swing Lo Sweet Chariot" before it was all gone with the wind.
As Heather Cox Richardson has noted, the South lost the Civil War on the battlefields, but a hard core of Southern white nationalists has never abandoned the idea of reasserting White control over what are now known as the Red states, from the old Confederacy west to the Mountain states where White Supremacy rules. And they are no longer satisfied with a White supremacist Red state America; they want to bring their creed to every state in America.
And now, a man living in the same house where Lincoln once lived and worked is sending in the Marines and a federalized national guard to crush democracy and to raise the flag of despotism and racial animus in California.
The MAGA mob has its man now.
What the rest of us have, remains to be seen.
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(Clip from Kimmel)
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