“Trumpism” is just reinvented Reaganism with added brutality
Grifter Trump stole Trumpism, just like everything else in his life
The king is dead; long live the [new] king.*
With today’s transfer of power in Washington, DC, Trump isn’t dead, but the best hope for the future of America and the world is that his political movement does, in fact, die an ignominious death.
Trump, of course, didn’t create Trumpism; like pretty much everything else in his life, he stole it.
When Fred Koch poured his money into the John Birch Society to protest the Supreme Court’s Brown v Board decision in 1954, helping fund billboards across America proclaiming that Chief Justice Earl Warren must be impeached, the scar of racism that was etched into our nation at our founding entered a new turning of our political cycles.
Richard Nixon picked up that banner with his 1968 Southern Strategy, and in the 1980s Ronald Reagan burned it into our national soul with policy after policy designed to disenfranchise, deny education or jobs, and keep healthcare, food and housing assistance away from Black people.
Trump was marinated in racial hatred by his father, who was once arrested at a Klan rally, and he spent his young years marking “C” for “Colored” on his…
