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https://archive.is/TmYpC | https://files.catbox.moe/ljv0eu.png :

Jelani Cobb on the Charlottesville white supremacists, Trump's response, and Nazis.

'I think that at one point it was prudent to ignore those movements, because they were looking for counterprotests for attention. '

'And so when we say “Nazi,” we summon the idea of the United States’ moral victories, and military ones. '

'It was expressed in popular culture and enjoined with American racism in a way we find very familiar now. '

'So there was sanction for these views in 1915 and 1916 and 1917 from the highest offices in the land. '

'There’s the Southern Strategy and Nixon, to see just how they could cobble together this coalition that included Southern whites around issues of race. '

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