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Robert C. Koehler: White supremacists want ‘their’ country back

Is an insurrection percolating in the MAGA universe? A civil war?

One thing I notice as I read the growing warnings that this is the case is the assumption that suddenly the USA has become a divided nation, a splintered democracy, when, in point of fact, it has always been deeply – and for much of its history, good God, legally – divided.

Indeed, Jim Crow America was the prime model for a certain would-be European dictator.

You may have heard of Adolf Hitler. In "Mein Kampf," the biography he wrote before he came to, writing in the New Yorker, “as the one state that has made progress toward a primarily racial conception of citizenship,”

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