Today's GOP, under Trumpism, is as real a threat to the survival of our republic as was the 1860's Confederacy and reflects a worldview grounded in the white supremacy of the American south.

Donald Trump promoted a modern Civil War in America this week on his social media platform. Civil War?

Further confounding things, Republican candidates like Pennsylvania's Kathy Barnette are openly running as ultra-MAGA candidates, having hijacked Trumpism without Trump himself. It's causing the media and political elites to have a "Huh? What?" moment.

Trumpism without Trump? Could it even be a thing?

Apparently so: candidates Trump has openly disavowed are claiming Trumpism as their standard, the flag they'll carry into the election and into office if they win.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

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