This is not a recent occurrence which just sprung up from the blue out of nowhere. It's been building sine the end of the Civil War. This is the original sin of Slavery which continues to damage the nation upon which it was built, root and branch. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how "conservative" Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn't a symptom, it's result. These are " The South Will Rise Again" assholes, rising, once again.
Well, to be contrarian, I'd argue that indigenous genocide was the original sin of the colonists, English, French, and Spanish, but not of the United States, who of course continued and expanded the pain and death upon the indigenous populations, but again, in this citizens opinion is Slavery, which not only caused so much pain, suffering and death it visited upon the Africans stolen from their homes, and their descendants, forced to work until they fell down dead, but was the root cause of the united states only civil war to date, yet still, rightfully, informs the American political sphere, whose civil right successes the white supremacists continue to fight so hard against, and why were seeing the continuation of the same racist policies seeking to dismantle the entire democratic experiment at it's core
they sure do, but that isn't what's driving the Republican attempt to destroy egalitarian, secular, representative Democracy, which is what the original post, as well as my comment, was about.
you can try to shoehorn it in, as an aside, but you were trying to make a point countering mine about American original sin, in relation to today's political dysfunction, and I said, and still say it's Slavery
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