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Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s 250th Celebrations
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Juneteenth, Solidarity, and the Villains Who Walk Among Us
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Wagner describes how Juneteenth this year felt different — more like a reckoning, a genuine celebration of resisting a system designed to strip freedom away. Richardson agrees, and expands: the Trump administration has made the abstract villains of American history suddenly, viscerally real. [1] — Heather Cox Richardson "The villains we found in our past that seemed somehow as if they were overdone, like truly nobody could really do X, are around us even sti…" 17:00 Watching figures like Stephen Miller and Greg Bevino rise to power, she says, has forced Americans — especially those too young to remember the 1960s — to recognize that the tactics of Bull Connor are not historical relics but living political strategies. For Richardson, this is cause not just for alarm but for solidarity: this is an existential struggle for American democracy, and the recognition of that could actually allow the country to 'get it right this time.'
