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Teddy Wilson
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Journalist and Researcher | Reporting and Research on the U.S. Radical Right | Publisher of Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social | Subscribe: https://www.radicalreports.org | Support My Work: https://linktr.ee/reportbywilson
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"Trump would have never won the presidency with only MAGA support. He had to win the hearts of 'reconciliationists' who were amenable to his promise to make America great again."
America’s memory war has shifted beneath our feet like the shifting tectonic plates of a California earthquake. Emancipationists and white supremacists now face off in a battle of life and death of apocalyptic expression. Rights thought to be carved in stone are being chipped away by an administration dedicated to white supremacy. Using its 1875 playbook, the white supremacist vision once again has aligned with the reconciliationist vision to undo the emancipationist vision. Trump would have never won the presidency with only MAGA support. He had to win the hearts of “reconciliationists” who were amenable to his promise to make America great again. MAGA is succeeding after decades of failure because they now have the power of the presidency in their hands. Paula White and Robert Jeffress and the Pentecostals are no longer props in Oval Office photo shoots. They are the shot callers in a demolition of history, truth, and equality. Adam Laats, a historian of education at Binghamton University, noted “Never before has this kind of fervor from the right owned the Oval Office.” The attempt to replace solid history curriculum with Barton-inspired fables and Prager University fantastical videos making a hero of Columbus is only the beginning of the birth pangs of a movement feeling the fervor of unmitigated political power.
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM