The spirit of the Confederacy is alive and well in Trump's America -- The Guardian

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/confederacy-trump-republican

Sympathy for yesteryear is gaining traction among Republican elites, and Trump’s relations with white supremacy is too close

Gen Robert E Lee is long dead, but the spirit of the Confederacy appears alive and well. Federal contractors will no longer be explicitly barred from racially segregating their restaurants, waiting rooms and water fountains, according to the Trump administration. A memorandum dated 15 February 2025, issued by the General Services Administration, the procurement arm of the federal government, explicitly dropped those strictures.

“Any open solicitations that contain any of the provisions or clauses listed above should be amended to remove the provisions and clauses,” the memo read. Forget about simply putting an end to race-based affirmative action and DEI. Team Trump appears determined to turn the clock back to the 1950s, if not earlier than that. The ghost of Jim Crow smiles.

The Confederate flag stood as a constant presence in and around the US Capitol on January 6 alongside makeshift gallows for Mike Pence and a sea of Trump flags. Since his 2016 campaign, Trump’s relationship with the Confederacy and white supremacy has been too close.

During his first run, he only reluctantly distanced himself from the endorsement of David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. After the infamous 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump defended the “very fine people” on both sides. He even heaped praise upon Lee, the leader of the losing army during the US civil war.

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[Initech]

1. Sorry MAGA elites, but I don't want to live in the Confederacy.

We fought that war for a reason, you lost. There's no reason to fight it again.

[Du916]

6. The Union lost.

I’ve said it before. The Civil War never needed. It went cold for 160 years and we are now on the verge of losing it. Lincoln should have burned the Confederacy to the ground and said “goodbye.”

[markodochartaigh]

2. So true.

And a major reason, in my opinion, that people from red-dead areas understand our country's current dilemma more intuitively than people who have only lived in blue areas.

[Keepthesoulalive]

3. Please tell me

What do they understand.

[Ping Tung]

4. Trump and MAGA has made nationalism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny and violence respectable again.

All that's missing is the pointy hats, white sheets, and the Stars and Bars.

[moondust]

5. The Trump Confederacy

is a description I recall using a couple times as far back as 2018.

[Kingofalldems]

7. The South has always been and still is Confederate.