3647 - Racist Conservative Attack on the Second Founding of America w/ Adam Serwer

Trump’s Slush Fund: A Legalized Payoff to His Inner Circle

“The proposed fund... could face legal hurdles, withdraw its money from a Treasury Department judgment fund. A permanent bucket of federal dollars used to pay court judgments and settlement sources said. The settlement terms are expected to bar the president from directly receiving payments related to the claims of his lawsuits. But it does not explicitly prohibit entities associated with him from doing so.”

The 15th Amendment: A Second Founding Against White Supremacy

“The 15th Amendment was adopted at a time of vicious, you know, racially motivated partisan disenfranchisement. Black people in the South are dealing with terrorism and violence from the Ku Klux Klan. You know, they're dealing with a Democratic Party that is explicitly stating its mission is to reassert white supremacy.”

The Court’s War on Voting Rights: From Reconstruction to Shelby County

“The idea is just to say, you know, whether you're in the Republican Party... Whether you're the Republican Party in the 21st century or the Democratic Party in the 19th century, the Constitution bars writing black people out of the Constitution so that you don't have to appeal to them at all.”

The Cultural Backlash: Why Black Representation Feels Threatening

“Whenever you see people complaining about like the Little Mermaid is black or something like that, it seems silly. But that kind of stuff is actually about labor. It's actually saying we don't think black people should have those jobs.”