Nikki Haley tried to dodge a question as to whether slavery was the cause of the Civil War? Why? She knows history, but the base voters of the Republican Party don’t want to hear it. The Confederate South did all it could to change the history of the Civil War, their reason for seceding, and the reason for their losing. But the cause of the Civil War was and still is just one thing - slavery, the attempt to expand slavery, and the racist justification of slavery. Want proof?
“ The vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens of Georgia, was quite clear about the cause of the Civil War. Stephens explicitly rejected the idea embraced by U.S. politicians from the revolutionary period onward that human enslavement was “wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.” Instead, he declared: “Our new government is founded upon…the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.”
That principle - “…subordination to a superior race…” is central to Evangelical and Catholic White Nationalism today, was central to the horrors of Jim Crow, and is central to the vaunted MAGA Base that has turned its back on democracy and taken over the Republican Party, the Supreme Court, and are trying to take over American Politics, American Rule of Law, American Education, American Media, American Military, American law enforcement, American Foreign Policy, America itself.
White Supremacists vote for white supremacists. Anti-democracy extremists vote for anti-democracy extremists. It’s not just the mentally ill Former Guy, it is the entire revolutionary cult of threatening and violent followers, enablers, strategizers, promoters, opportunists, and charlatans.
America is under chaotic but planned and organized attack. But I firmly believe the true American Spirit and Soul will emerge stronger and better as a result.
These people may be violent and threatening, but they are extraordinarily repulsive. They are going to lose more than they win.
