Is the incoming Trump administration the "Know-Nothings" Abraham Lincoln warned us about 169 years ago?
It certainly seems that way.
In an 1855 letter to his friend Joshua Speed, Lincoln wrote:
“We now practically read [The Declaration of Independence] as ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty...”
Lincoln was clear: he would rather leave the country than see it turn away from equality and liberty for all.
Today, as we witness threats to deport entire families and the separation of children from their parents at the border, we find ourselves confronting the very reality Lincoln feared.
People voted to put religion (Christianity) back into the school system while voting against making students have a free breakfast & lunch. Saying a prayer in school while refusing to feed the poor will always speak to the highest form of hypocrisy for Christians & progressives.
White MAGA boomer: “In my day people weren’t so easily offended.”
Me: “In your day white people would lose their shit if a Black person used the same water fountain as them.”
Crickets 🦗
Anyone who knows a lick of history knows that it took Hitler yearsss to lay ground work for the havoc he wreaked by the time he got power.
He was a laughing stock until he wasn’t. I literally can’t believe we’re repeating history almost 100 years later cause of IDIOT BIGOTS!
Trump is dismantling the department of education for 4 reasons:
1. Uneducated people vote for republicans
2. To allow red states to white wash history
3. To funnel tax dollars into private for-profit Christian schools that promote the patriarchy
4. Project 2025 said to do it