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fair enough.. its a lot to address and per usualy muItiple replies to get to at once..may have strayed a bit so I agree political realignments happened over time and I’m not arguing every segregationist woke up Republican overnight. My issue is with the modern narrative getting oversimplified into “Republicans inherited all the racism therefore Democrats are absolved of their own history.” The Democratic Party absolutely played the central institutional role in slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and resistance to early civil rights legislation. That history matters too, even if coalitions later shifted. I also agree there are fringe people today attached to Confederate symbolism, and most conservatives aren’t interested in defending racism. There’s a difference between historical preservation and endorsing what the Confederacy stood for. My main point was about AOC’s rhetoric. Calling MAGA “the last dying breath of the Confederacy” is an intentionally divisive framing that paints tens of millions of Americans as morally illegitimate instead of engaging with why people actually support populism, nationalism, smaller government, border enforcement, or distrust of modern institutions. History is more complicated than either side usually presents it online.

You’re arguing against a cartoon version of the claim. Nobody said every segregationist personally switched parties the next morning. The claim is that the political home of white Southern conservatism moved from the Democratic coalition to the Republican coalition. “Some segregationists stayed Democrats for decades” doesn’t disprove that. It just proves realignments are messy and generational. The voters moved, the region moved, the symbols moved, and the rhetoric moved. Nixon enforcing desegregation also doesn’t erase the Southern Strategy. Politicians can enforce federal law while still exploiting white backlash electorally. That’s not a contradiction. And Reagan’s “states’ rights” line in Philadelphia, Mississippi wasn’t some neutral budget seminar. In that location, with that phrase, after civil rights, everyone understood the signal. As for Confederate flags at MAGA events being “plants”… come on. If your defense is “all the obvious racists around us are secretly fake,” you’ve left history and entered fan fiction. The question remains… where is the Confederate nostalgia today? Which party defends the monuments? Which side calls civil rights history “woke”? Which movement attracts the people waving that flag? Which party just all but erased black representation in the south? That’s the inheritance. Not the party label from 1861.

AOC: “MAGA is the last dying breath of the confederacy. In response to a confederacy, we have this moment here of liberation, abolition, and revival of the values that make this country actually great. We have every freedom that we have today because somebody in each generation refused to accept the world as it was”

Funny how you cherry pick a couple old switches like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms years after the Civil Rights Act and act like the whole South flipped parties overnight. Most segregationist Democrats stayed right in the Democrat Party for decades. The South didnt go solidly Republican until the 90s and 2000s long after race stopped being the main driver. Nixons Southern Strategy? He actually enforced desegregation and won fewer Southern states than Goldwater. Reagans states rights line was about shrinking big government not race. Trump defending statues was about not erasing history. A tiny handful of idiots waving Confederate flags at rallies or J6 doesnt define 80 million voters. Most of us think plenty were plants anyway I mean how many "maga" wore masks an khakis lol. Modern Democrats dont need the old flag. They just repackaged the same race obsessed divisive politics under new labels. The party of the Confederacy KKK and Jim Crow is still pushing identity politics today. History is not a shell game bro. 😂

Strom Thurmond ran as a segregationist Dixiecrat, then became a Republican. Jesse Helms was a segregationist Democrat, then became a Republican. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” targeted white backlash after civil rights. Reagan launched his general election campaign near Philadelphia, Mississippi, talking about “states’ rights.” Trump defended Confederate statues. MAGA rallies and Jan. 6 had Confederate flags everywhere. Spare me the party-label shell game. Which side do the Confederate nostalgists vote for now?

@Filmantopia @MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC oh these feds pretending to be "maga" lmao

@Rightly_DTN @MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC

Funny how u idiotskeep pushing the “Southern racists all became Republicans” fairy tale. Back then pretty much EVERY American was “conservative” by today’s standards. The actual racist Southern Democrats didn’t magically switch parties. They stayed right where they were in the Democrat Party for decades! MAGA folks fly the American flag, not the Confederate one. Modern Democrats don’t need the old flag. They just rebranded the same divisive identity politics under new packaging. and add some multicolored weetard flags in the mix for those they propagandize and pander to.. History isn’t that hard, bro. 😂 well for some at least..for you..comprehension skill up needed

@Rightly_DTN @MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC The Democratic Party were the southern racist conservatives. They didn’t all just move away. They’re the ones who now call themselves Republicans and MAGA, many of which who still fly the confederate flag. You don’t see modern Democrats doing that.

They didn’t switch, man. Lincoln’s Radical Republicans stayed in the GOP or faded out. The racist Southern Democrats (the real Confederacy/KKK/Jim Crow crew) stayed Democrats for another 100 years. Black voters started shifting to Dems in the 1930s over the New Deal, not because the parties flipped. The same party that fought civil rights then is the one pushing identity politics and big government now. No mass exodus of Lincoln’s radicals to the blue team. Just history they don’t teach anymore. You can try to actually research a bit.. "hE/hiM" lmao who cares what ppl call you in the 3rd person while youre absent..so dumb lol

@Rightly_DTN @MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC What happened to those self described Radical Republicans of Lincoln and why did they all become Democrats or socialists? 🤔

@ToddStn @Acyn Funny how calling Fetterman joining actual common sense “intellectual collapse” while your side runs on shills, scripted parrots, and zero context. We’ll take the guy who grew a spine over the ones still stuck in the weetrad woke hive mind...

@Rightly_DTN @Acyn You can have him. He’ll fit right in with the moral and intellectual collapse of the conservative movement.

Fetterman: People in my party are becoming anti-data centers. They are calling for a moratorium. That’s lunacy! That’s China first! That’s ridiculous!

@DefiantLs b/c youre repulsive and deceptive.

This "trans woman" has a question for you: "How could you not like me?"

@heidi_snow95670 @Bubblebathgirl her post literally has that "after the box of wine" vibe..

@Bubblebathgirl Chelsea Handler should stick to day drinking and leave the politics to those who have a clue.

Chelsea Handler just went full identity politics on Spencer Pratt’s run for LA Mayor. She posted on Instagram: “If you’re seeing this video, this is a reminder that a straight, white male, former reality star that has no previous experience in government should not be a legitimate political candidate. Have we learned anything yet?” Disqualifying a candidate purely because he’s straight and white? That’s not commentary — it’s open discrimination. Telling voters who’s “allowed” to run based on race and gender is the exact bigotry Hollywood claims to fight. How does her kind of rhetoric actually help Los Angeles? (Video: AI)

@Bubblebathgirl "If youre seeing this video" theyre not.

Funny how Neil deGrasse Tyson pretends @elonmusk has done “nothing NASA hasn’t already done.” Bro, NASA hasn’t landed a human on the Moon since 1972, spent decades blowing billions on SLS that still barely flies, and now literally pays SpaceX to get astronauts to the ISS because their own rides suck. Reusable orbital rockets that land themselves? Starlink lighting up the planet? Starship actually trying to go multiplanetary? NASA talked about it. Elon did it. Neil’s been riding the government grant teet for years. Classic establishment shill protecting the old NASA priesthood while private industry laps them. 😂

@joeroganhq Neil’s been riding the government grant teet for years. Classic establishment shill protecting the old NASA priesthood while private industry laps them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "Elon Musk hasn't done anything that NASA hasn't already done."

@BLMGGII @MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC Me? what? the Marxist playbook?? lol

@Rightly_DTN @MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC Hey dipshit, the parties changed values. Maybe open a fucking book.

@DefiantLs Here Black Americans have the highest standard of living for any Black population on Earth, record-low unemployment under Trump, and every legal right imaginable. These wakadoodles are insufferable

Alyssa Farah: "I think it's very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran." Whoopi Goldberg: "Not if you're black."

@metzger_jm @Bubblebathgirl @AOC bartending skills just dont work well in congress

@Bubblebathgirl Low IQ politician. Does this unintelligent wingnut @AOC not know that it is the Democrats that are the heirs to the Confederacy, doing everything they can with handouts and terrible education, to keep Black Americans captive to the grifting elites, ever since the Civil War.

🚨 AOC Just Dropped a Bomb in Philadelphia Today at a campaign event for Chris Rabb, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared: “MAGA is the last dying breath of the confederacy.” She called it a moment of “liberation and abolition.” Smearing millions of America First voters as Confederates? Extreme and deeply divisive. A sitting Congresswoman fueling division instead of unity. AOC should preach unity over smears. 🇺🇸 Does she really think comparing everyday Americans (including some of her own constituents) to the Confederacy helps anything? (Video: AI)

@DeztroReal @Bubblebathgirl Does she even remember what district that she "reps"?? lol

@Bubblebathgirl I don't think most of her constituents care (or know what the Confederacy was). They migrated here for free shit.

@Bubblebathgirl A sh1t bomb out of her retarded mouth, Bartending skill fail in congress..

@AceFreeman23623 @MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC facts sir! Amen

@MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC We told you AOC is stupid. Democrats are the confederates. Always have been. History lesson for the twit who's dumber than a box of Crocketts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Funny how this guy calls MAGA the “politics of fear, hate, and division” while defending the party that literally invented it. Democrats: pro-slavery, founded the KKK, wrote Jim Crow, filibustered Civil Rights. MAGA: secure borders, constitutional limits, stop printing money, end the forever wars on citizens. Reactionary? Nah. We’re the ones pushing back against the real authoritarians trying to rewrite history and divide everyone by skin color. AOC isn’t right. She’s just allergic to facts. 😂

@MarcoFoster_ @RepAOC @TeamAOC AOC is right. Every generation that expanded freedom in America had to defeat the politics of fear, hate, and division first. MAGA is just the latest version of a very old reactionary movement.

@sickofdischit @joeroganhq I wonder how much she paid him.. remember how she pretended to run at him fists clenched and raised!? Shes a tool

@joeroganhq Why don't we hear about this "attack" anymore? Where is the guy?

Ilhan Omar: "People say you shouldn't have a Muslim in Congress… I have protection to practice any religion I want."