Post by addisona on May 26, 2022 2:31:45 GMT
McDermott: Yes, real America is being ‘replaced’ — by a radicalized political right
It’s true, what you’ve heard: The influence and priorities of real Americans are being “replaced” by interlopers who don’t respect our history and philosophy.
But the replacements aren’t the massed hordes of brown-skinned invaders from the fevered fantasies of the political right.
They are instead the Donald Trumps of the world, who reject the longstanding principle of acknowledging electoral defeat for the sake of democracy. They are the Tucker Carlsons, who seek to revive the grotesque legacy of Jim Crow, gaslighting it back into the national conversation with different narratives that mean the same thing. They are the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc, which would have us believe the Constitution isn’t a living document but a static one that dooms us all to the societal standards of 1787.
How is it that people who have nothing but contempt for the principles that define the best of this country today have somehow managed to designate themselves as the arbiters of what it means to be American?
www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/kevin-mcdermott/mcdermott-yes-real-america-is-being-replaced-by-a-radicalized-political-right/article_97fd163f-81bc-5b47-8f0d-b9c57b74af79.html
It’s true, what you’ve heard: The influence and priorities of real Americans are being “replaced” by interlopers who don’t respect our history and philosophy.
But the replacements aren’t the massed hordes of brown-skinned invaders from the fevered fantasies of the political right.
They are instead the Donald Trumps of the world, who reject the longstanding principle of acknowledging electoral defeat for the sake of democracy. They are the Tucker Carlsons, who seek to revive the grotesque legacy of Jim Crow, gaslighting it back into the national conversation with different narratives that mean the same thing. They are the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc, which would have us believe the Constitution isn’t a living document but a static one that dooms us all to the societal standards of 1787.
How is it that people who have nothing but contempt for the principles that define the best of this country today have somehow managed to designate themselves as the arbiters of what it means to be American?
www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/kevin-mcdermott/mcdermott-yes-real-america-is-being-replaced-by-a-radicalized-political-right/article_97fd163f-81bc-5b47-8f0d-b9c57b74af79.html