The indictments against King George in the Declaration of Independence could just as easily be applied to Trump
The writer is chair of public humanities at the University of London and the author of ‘The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells’ This week, the Supreme Court granted Donald Trump an extraordinary level of immunity from prosecution, described by dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor as elevating the president to “a king above the law”. The day afterwards the head of the conservative Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, said he was “really encouraged” by the ruling.
The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who led the 2021 insurrection were the inheritors of the 1930s Silver Shirts: they all thought they were taking the country back — for themselves. Not for nothing was the most popular American film in the early 20th century, which glorified the Ku Klux Klan, called The Birth of a Nation.
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