In the 1930s, Hitler and the “Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism” — The United States of America. In 1935, Hitler sent 45 German lawyers to the U.S. to study the Jim Crow laws passed by the South after The Civil War that legalized racial segregation.
Today, we’re witnessing a rise in white supremacy, election denialism and attacks on Critical Race Theory. It’s evident in the Confederate flags that Donald Trump’s followers — some armed — carried into the Capitol on the 6th of January 2021 to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Donald Trump ordered them to “fight like hell” or they would lose their country.
That country is the Confederacy. History confirms it. In 1861, Southerners believed “the U.S. Constitution gave them the power as a state to declare any national federal law illegal.”
The founders had written the Constitution and the first 10 Amendments to bolster “states’ individual rights and freedoms” and prevent a takeover by a dictator like England’s George III.
After The Civil War, ”six of the next seven amendments,” beginning with the 13th Amendment in 1865, “vastly increased national power.”
Yet The South was still able to pass Jim Crow laws in the 1870s. Those laws remained in effect until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 struck them down.
The South rose from its defeat in The Civil War with a powerful myth. In 1866, a new book, “The Lost Cause,” that is still popular today, glorified the Confederacy. It was a myth that migrating Southerners spread across the U.S.
Make America Great Again. Trump’s slogan hides a deep yearning for the days of “clearly defined white power and privilege,” giving voice to “the tentacles of deeply buried and unconscious beliefs that white people and their way of life are being threatened…” The 2020 U.S. Census has projected that by 2045 white people will be a minority in the U.S. The projection is based on statistics from the 2020 census showing the number of white people fell in 35 states between 2010 and 2020 for the first time in history.
What voters face today is a resurrection of racism and a “wanna be dictator” running for president with 91 criminal indictments in four new criminal cases and a history of wrong-doing Don’t forget what Trump said in 2016: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
DO WE ELECT A CRIMINAL OR NOT?
• In 2018, a federal court ordered Trump to pay $25 million to students duped by Trump’s fraudulent University.
• In 2019, a federal court ordered Trump to pay a $2 million dollar fine for using his Charity Foundation as a personal piggy bank.
• In 2023, Trump was found guilty of fraud in a civil trial for inflating “his net worth to get better financing.”
• In 2023, Trump was convicted of sexually abusing a woman in a New York City department store dressing room in 1996 and defaming her. He was ordered to pay her $5 million.
• In 2024, Trump’s lawyer argued Trump would be immune “from prosecution” for ordering the murder of a political rival while he was in office unless he was first impeached and convicted in Congress. Trump was in court with him and did not object.
