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By and large, the second group is always in the electoral and organizational minority. It's always on the back foot, always in retreat, always losing.
Talking about the America That Is Imperial versus the America That Is Protesting is like talking about Vichy France relative to the French Resistance. This latter group isn't institutional. It isn't endemic to the social project that is the nation state. What you're pointing to is a kind of weed that the national government needs to root out every so often in order to grow its fascist garden.
These groups may be American by residency or outward fashion or in the superficial tokens of identity. But they are enemies of America as an administration. They are anti-American in deed. They're an insurgency that the American socio-economic system seeks to snuff out.
I don’t understand your logic here. Yeah, a lot of new ideas are pushed forward by fringe or oppressed groups. Those fringe groups can grow in size and power to challenge, and thus change the institution itself.
MAGA was not institutional at first. They were fringe and weird. No one took them seriously. Look at where they are now.
Slavery was institutional at first. But then the Republicans, an institution, were created to counter slavery. Abraham Lincoln literally tricked American citizens into supporting the 13th Amendment, thinking it was necessary to stop the Civil War. In reality, Lincoln kept the Civil War going longer than necessary to pass the Amendment.
Was that the case at the Battle of Blair Mountain or via the anti-war movement during Korea and Vietnam?
The Republicans, as an institution, existed for a historical heartbeat. They took power in the midst of the Civil War in 1861, struggled for 16 years, and then surrendered to the slavers in exchange for a single term of the Hayes Administration. Lincoln ended the plantation system and gave a single generation of African Americans an opportunity to flee their southern oppressors, before "moderates" in the party slammed the doors shut. Then it was another century before civil rights for African Americans was raised to national prominence again.
The Radical Republicanism of the 1960s couldn't survive the end of the decade. The 13th amendment's "prison" clause was ruthlessly exploited almost immediately, creating a state sanctioned plantation system that persists to this day. And the expansionist policies of the Republicans during and after the post-war era turned the white supremacist tendencies of the Confederate South into transcontinental genocide and imperial expansion, culminating in the globe-spanning American Empire presided over by the Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan Administrations.
We didn't end slavery. We internationalized slavery.
This is a weird perspective, considering the war ended and Lincoln died before the 13th was ratified. I’ve always been taught the 13th was to settle the legal status of slavery nationwide in a more permanent way than a presidential proclamation.
Oh I was wrong. I learned about this from Lincoln the movie. Turned out prolonging the war was added for dramatic effect. Thought it was true.