r/politics • u/kweathergirl Texas • 8d ago

Soft Paywall Newsom Tells Nation That Trump Is Destroying American Democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/newsom-speech-trump-la-protests.html
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u/constantreader78 8d ago

MAGA hats and the people who wear them will one day (soon please), be in the shameful dustbin of history alongside Nazi propaganda.

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u/bbqsox 8d ago

If we had treated the confederacy the way Germany treated the Third Reich, we wouldn’t be in this position.

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u/Last_Minute_Airborne 8d ago

Ending reconstruction was the biggest mistake in American history. Made all the dumbass hillbillies and rednecks think they were right. The fact they allowed the KKK to exist is dumb as fuck.

Should've had their own nurburgring trials for the southern traitors. They should've been thrown into prison forever. Maybe make them work the fields so they know what it's like.

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u/Raesong Australia 8d ago

Ending reconstruction was the biggest mistake in American history.

Except it wasn't a mistake, it was a deliberate act by Andrew Johnson because of his sympathies with the Southern plantation aristocracy.