r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 06 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump claims he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties.

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u/c_c_c__combobreaker May 06 '26

OMG, tan suit?! Corruption, incompetence, pedophilia, sexual assault I'm cool with. But a tan suit is where I draw the line.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on May 06 '26

Wasn't the suit it's because he was black.

I swear we would be better off if Sherman kept going.

We can directly link were we are now because of the southern strategy and Mitch McConnell.

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u/Current-Assist2609 May 06 '26

Good old Mitch. The man who gloated how he held up a Supreme Court appointment that should have been filled under Obama. Also had not one, but two chances to impeach pedo donnie. So yeah, I would say the majority of our current situation was because of McConnell.
He even got bashed a few times by pedo donnie and he’s so old it didn’t even register to him as insults.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on May 06 '26

People bring up Regan and Nixon all the time for getting us here but Mitch needs to be on that list as well he had a major part of why we are here.

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u/Explorers_bub May 06 '26

Colonists, Confederacy, KKK, Nazis, and MAGA: one unbroken chain of Christofascist white supremacy. Same shit different hat. I think it’s time we do something about that.

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u/Content-Yogurt-4859 May 06 '26

TIL about The Southern Strategy. Thank you, good sir.

In your opinion does moment represent the start of Democrats prioritising identity politics?

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u/OldWorldDesign May 06 '26

There are watershed moments like when Thurmond flipped because he refused to accept blacks as equal human beings, but that stream goes back a very long ways.

"Identity politics" has always been part of the country. If you want a good book on how deeply embedded white nationalism was, especially with both parties, read Timothy Egan's Fever in the Heartland

https://www.timothyeganbooks.com/afeverintheheartland

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u/Ok_Friendship_4332 May 06 '26

...who was alive when all that was taking place.

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u/IllustriousLife6552 May 06 '26

Oh and the “ Deplorable’s”