Since the start of President Trump’s second term, the social media team from the Ministry of Internal Security has published a flow of content worthy of a resident of the memes in 4chan.
Genea and distorts of immigrants. Links to news from Fox News on kicks on Maga. Slams whining against politicians who call THE emigrate To deal with the Constitution as a pee. Paeans at “Heritage” and “Homeland” worthy of Goebbels. A painting by Thomas Kinkade from the white closing suburbs of the 1950s, all out of “Leave It To Beaver”, with the legend “Protect the Homeland”.
All this is inducing the gag, but it has a goal – it reveals the racist ID of this administration in real time, in case someone is always doubtful.
In June, DHS shared a poster, originally created by the scene of white power, of A dark uncle urging Americans “Report all foreign invaders” by calling immigration and customs application. On July 14, the DHS X account presented A painting by a young white couple Shepherd A baby in a covered cart on the big plains with legend: “Remember the heritage of your homeland.”
When my colleague Hailey Branson-Potts Asked about pioneer painting And the Trump administration’s social networks strategy of the Trump administration, a White House spokesman asked him to “explain how the expulsion of illegal foreigners is racist”, adding that enemies should “remain angry”.
Now, here is the last DHS Salvo: a July 23 position from A 19th century painting by John Gast Entitled “American Progress”.
A white blonde woman stolen – yes – white, with a gold star just above her forehead, floats in the center. She holds a book in her right hand and a telegraph wire loop that her left hand crosses the posts. Below it on the right side are minors, hunters, farmers, loggers, diligence and trains. They rush to the west, illuminated by swollen clouds and the sweet light of dawn.
The Angelique woman is Columbia, the personification of historic women in the United States. She seems to guide everyone forward, towards the Amerindians – women with bare chest, hairstyle warriors – who flee in terror with a herd of bison and a bear with her mouth. It is however too late: the trains of covered wagons and a teammster brandishing a whip have already encroached on their land.
The white settlers are literally in the side that has been beaten from painting, while the Amerindians are surrounded on the dark and troubled side.
It’s not subtle, friends!
“A heritage of which he is proud, a homeland that deserves to be defended,” wrote Dhs as a legend for “American Progress” – a mantra that you could soon find printed on the $ 20 ticket, the way this administration takes place.
Gast finished his painting in 1872, when the United States was in the last stages of the conquest. The civil war was made. White Americans moved to the Southwest in large numbers, dispossessed the Americans of Mexican origin who have been there for generations in the courts, squatting or murdering outright. The army accelerated to defeat the Amerindians once and for all. In the eyes of politicians, a new threat emerged from the Pacific: mass Asian migration, especially Chinese.
The scholars have long interpreted the infamous work of Gast as an allegory of manifesto of destiny – that the United States had the right given by God to grasp as much American continent as possible. John L. O’Sullivan, the newspaper which invented the term in 1845, openly linked the expansion of this country to white supremacy, expressing the hope that pushing blacks in Latin America, a region “already of mixed and confused blood”, would lead to “the ultimate disappearance of the negative race of our fris”.
O’Sullivan has also salivated that California leaves Mexico “foolish and distracted” and joining the United States, adding: “The Anglo-Saxon foot is already at its borders. Already in the advance of the irresistible army of Anglo-Saxon emigration began to pour on it, army of the charbe and the rifle. ”
This is the heritage that the Trump administration thinks that it is worth promoting.
Vice-president JD Vance, Center, talks next to officials, especially from left to right, HUD regional administrator, William Spencer, US Atty. For the California central district Bill Essayli, the FBI Los Angeles Asst. Director Akil Davis, the head of the American border border patrol sector Gregory Bovino and the director of the Ice field office Ernie Santacruz at Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles in June.
(Jae C. Hong / AP)
Administration officials act shocked and offended when criticism accuse them of racism, but Trump’s base knows exactly what is happening.
“It is our country, and we cannot let the radical left make us ashamed of our inheritance”, ” An X user commented On the post “American Progress”. “Manifestant Destiny was an incredible thing!”
“It’s time to re-qualify the land”, ” Another wrote.
The DHS seems to vibrate the American heritage movement, now bleeding in the conservative current of its far -right beginnings. His members argue that Americans whose ancestors have been here for generations deserve more the riches of this nation than those whose families came in living memory. Our values, according to supporters, should not be based on archaic concepts such as freedom and equality, but rather customs and traditions established by Anglo Protestants before mass immigration which forever changes the demography of this country.
In other words, if you are white, everything is fine. If you are brown or something else, you are probably not broken down.
Our own vice-president, JD Vance, married this Fall. In a speech at the Claremont Institute Earlier this month, Vance underlined his vision of what an American is.
“America is not only an idea,” said Vance to the crowd. “We are a particular place, with a particular people and a particular set of beliefs and lifestyle.”
Weird – I learned in high school that people come here not because of the way Americans live, but because they have the freedom to live as they wish.
“If you stop importing millions of foreigners,” continued the vice-president, “you authorize social cohesion to form naturally.”
All these Europeans in the South and Eastern the arrival at the turn of the 20th century seem to have assimilated very well, even if the Scottish of Appalachia – ethnic affiliation claimed from Vance – are, are, confessionAlways a tribe apart after centuries of life here.
Trump, added Vance, is “ensuring[ing] That the people we serve have a better life in the country that their grandparents have built. »I guess it excludes me, since My Mexican grandparents settled here in the fall of their lives.
The irony to raise Americans from the so-called heritage is that many of Trumpworld seem to be excluded.
First lady Melania Trump was born in what is now Slovenia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is The child of Cuban immigrants. The parents of the woman of Vance came here from India. The Jewish immigrant ancestor of the Trump’s deportation brain, Stephen Miller, would not be authorized for these days, after Arriving in Ellis Island of Tsarist Russia with $ 8 in his name. Even Gast and O’Sullivan would not count as heritage Americans by the strictest definition, because the first was Prussian and the second was the son of Irish and English immigrants.
But it’s Maga’s bad genius. Trump proclaimed that he welcomes anyone who, regardless of race, belief or sexual orientation (with the exception of trans people), in his movement, as long as they have committed to having Libs.
The Americans are so myopic on their own history, if not downright ignorant, that some minorities think that they are welcomed in the heritage, the Americans bend by Vance and its fellow men. No wonder that a record number of colored voters, especially Latinosjumped on the Trump train in 2024.
“American progress” could replace the red hats as well as the symbol of Maga Ultime. For them, it is not a shameful artifact; It is a roadmap for Americans determined to go up the chronometer to the era of eradication.
As I said, not a subtle message at all – if your eyes are not closed.
