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As Thanksgiving and its enduring mythologies approach, Jon and Arnie discuss the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign to evangelize white supremacy in the United States and abroad. Invoking Trump’s anti-DEI Executive Orders, federal officials purged a “report on missing and murdered Native Americans” while claiming “countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights.” The cooptation of civil rights rhetoric to undermine civil rights is nothing new. Nor is the strategic use of racism to justify public and private violence against communities of color and to distract impoverished white communities from the source of their material precarity. With limited exception, Democrats remain unable to defuse the GOP’s naked racial politics – including the ongoing weaponization of anti-blackness and Jewish identity – to criminalize dissent, control curricula and crack the Left.