*Tried unsuccessfully to make alliance with French emperor Napoleon
*Rigged elections to prevent all minorities from voting
*Embraced a police state for all but the richest plantation owners who could never be prosecuted
*Accused their political opponents in both the North and South of demonic or perverse behavior, particularly interracial or gay sex
*Enforced anti-abortion laws when white women became pregnant
*Heavily criminalized minor behaviors like loitering
*Normalized violence as a political tool
*Crushed a generation of Southern worker organizing efforts
*Claimed the mantle of "the average man" fighting against the "tyranny" of the North
*Made it impossible for all but the wealthy to get a college education
*Ended what few government regulations existed for working conditions and products
*Established a mythology of victimhood and fear of "replacement" later known as "The Lost Cause"
In other words, Trumpism is simply the politics of the American Confederacy reinvented for the 21st century. And even now Trumpists - whether affiliated with Donald or not - are openly talking about starting a second civil war.
They're lionizing killers for the cause like Kyle Rittenhouse.
They're embracing foreign authoritarians like Putin and Orba'n.
They're building and funding their own media empires while destroying American's faith in mainstream media.
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