COUNTERPUNCH, OCTOBER 2, 2020
Despite being the most subliterate President in American history, Trump
has managed to interject himself into recent culture wars that are the
bailiwick of tenured professors and highfalutin media pundits. Since
Trump confused the word council for counsel, he needs all the help he
can get. While Stephen Miller or some other erudite malefactor wrote the
speeches, you can at least give him credit for being able to read them.
As for their purpose, they are in keeping with his white supremacist agenda.
On the Fourth of July, Trump made a speech at Mount Rushmore that
resonated with the Harper’s Open Letter that appeared only three days later:
One of their political weapons is “Cancel Culture” — driving people
from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission
from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of
totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our
values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America.
He has since followed up with attacks on the N.Y. Times Project 1619 and
critical race theory. The odds of him having read a single article in
the magazine section that launched Project 1619 or some peer-reviewed
journal article on critical race theory are about the same as me winning
the N.Y. Marathon. His failure to have ever read a single word, however,
did not prevent him from attacking them in a speech given at the
National Archives Museum on September 17^th .
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2020/10/02/donald-trump-the-culture-wars-and-the-left/
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