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This isn't the confederacy that's taken over, this is a hostile acquisition by corporations. The key difference is that while there's a blatantly racist tone to the current administration, it's all a cover to make the racist conservative block feel like they've won, while the corporations get all the deregulation they want, and everyone who is not wealthy is getting their pockets cleaned and their right to complain removed.
Yep, this is a class war, and the rich are winning.
In a war there are (at least) two sides that are fighting. This is more like a massacre.
They're winning because the South are and have always been the ultimate class traitors.
Hitler wrote about Jim Crow with praise in Mein Kampf, the Nuremberg Laws just have his name written in at the top.
The main reason they voted for him? https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/executive-actions-trump-school-choice/index.html
They got one of their greatest wishes back, it's why they're celebrating, they finally broke desegregation.
They can only see a class war as a race war, it's their nature, and the only thing they have cared about since the founding.