"A new vision for the United States is being forced into place - one rooted not in liberty or justice, but in subjugation and the quiet normalization and acceptance of fascism. You can see it in the memes, the slogans, and the curated nostalgia flooding social media accounts aligned with the Trump administration. You can see it in the way frontier and 1950s iconographies have returned not as history but as aspiration."
"It's about promoting and embracing a version of "America" built on authoritarianism and white supremacy. It's a version that elevates conquest, cruelty, and dominance as virtue and heritage over liberty and justice. It's a digital-age rebranding of Manifest Destiny - the idea that the United States was ordained to expand across the North American continent, seizing land, displacing and eradicating Indigenous people in the name of progress -"
A coordinated revival recasts conquest, cruelty, and dominance as patriotic heritage rather than crimes. Memes, slogans, and curated nostalgia elevate frontier and 1950s iconography into aspirational national identity. Efforts aim to control what young people learn about colonization, slavery, genocide, and the violent foundations of the country. Government actions and public defenses of historical atrocities exemplify active embrace of that violent legacy. The campaign reframes Manifest Destiny as virtue, sanitizes mass violence, and normalizes subjugation, converting historical distortion into accepted truth and reshaping civic memory toward authoritarianism and white supremacy.
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