Donald Trump gives a bad reputation for lime.
Her executive decree From last Thursday, the vice-president directed Vance, who is a member of the Smithsonian’s Board, and the director of the Russell Vought budget “to ensure that future credits to the institution of Smithsonian prohibit expenses in exhibitions or programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans according to the race or promote programs or ideologies or ideologies or ideologies incompatible with federal law. “
“Formerly largely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural success”, continued Trump, “the institution of the Smithsonian has, in recent years, under the influence of a division of ideology centered on race … It is the policy of my administration to restore federal sites dedicated to history, including parks and museums, reduction of public monuments and Americans. “
To this end, in the same decree, Trump also asked the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to “determine whether, since January 1, 2020, public monuments, commemorative monuments, statues, markers or similar properties within the Department of Jurisdiction of the Interior have been deleted or modified to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately or figures, or otherwise almost not be partisan ideology “and to” take measures to restore pre -existing monuments, monuments, statues, markers or similar properties. “
For the sake of conciseness, let’s pass the distortions of American history inherent in ignoring the inconveniences such as slavery, the law on eastern exclusion, Japanese mass internment of the Second World War, the burns of colonial witches, lynchages, laws applying racial segregation, this kind of state department. (A good thing that Vance is not also on the board of directors of the Holocaust museum.) Let us simply focus on Trump’s professed opposition to an “divisor ideology and centered on race”, and its instructions towards Burgum, in the same executive decree, to rebuild and restore the statues of confederate military and political leaders.
There are no figures in American history which personified “the ideology of division and centered on the race” more completely than these leaders, who broke the nation and inflicted on the American people the bloodiest war of our history entirely in the cause of this ideology. The animating and fundamental principle of the Confederation was contrary to the beliefs of the founders, according to March 1861 “Angular stone speech“Of Alexandre Stephens, who will soon become the vice-president of the Confederation. Despite the tolerance of Thomas Jefferson to slavery, Stephens said: “The dominant ideas entertainment by him and most of the main statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution, were that the slavery of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was in principle, socially, morally and politically. »»
“Our new government,” continued Stephens, “is based exactly on the opposite idea; His foundations are laid, his angle stone rests, on the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that the subordination of slavery in the upper race is its natural and normal condition. This new government is the first, the first truth.
Admittedly, you can interpret this as an ideology divisor and centered on the breed, and it was certainly the ideology at the service of which the Confederate Generals whose Trump statues ordered reinstalling directed armies which killed hundreds of thousands of American soldiers. But since Trump ordered the eradication of the ideology centered on the race, I suppose that the Confederate cause was not centered on the breed after all. (If one of you believes that the South has secured in the name of the rights of the States, I refer you to Confederate ConstitutionArticle I, Section 9, paragraph 4, which indicates both the Confederation Congress and its Member States that “no bill of damage, ex post-facto, or the law refusing or moving the right of property in negro slaves will be adopted.”)
And since our president opposes the ideology centered on the breed, there can be no sparkle in Trump’s decision to close all the refugee resettlement programs save the The one he created For white Afrikaners from South Africa. During his first day in the White House, Trump suspended the resettlement of refugees for people fleeing for their life as a nations such as Congo and Afghanistan (in the latter, some of whom had helped our forces at considerable risk). The threat to Afrikaners, who once directed their country through the apartheid system, although around 90% of their nation is black or Asian, is not immediately apparent: they are subject to violent crimes at the same rate as the population as a whole. They are also not broadcast for outings: like Ernst Roets, the former executive director of the Afrikaner Foundation, who put pressure for Afrikaners in South Africa, said The New York Times“I don’t know anyone – that I know – who plans to move to America.”
The square of circles like Trump’s opposition to the ideology centered on the race and its support for Confederate statues and Afrikaner immigration should not be so difficult, once you understand that “centered on the breed” does not mean and cannot mean “centered on whites”. “White”, in Trumpworld, means “normal”; Therefore, acceptable to everyone. Any other breed, therefore, is abnormal; Therefore, division. I hope this pointer will prove useful to decode other Trump decrees.