This is exactly where we are right now as a country.

Let’s dissect this. This is what Culture War looks like. We do not have a functioning two party system in America. The Republican Party is the vessel of an autocratic cult of personality, hostile to democracy, civil rights and equality that is teeming with menace, extremism and 1 https://t.co/GHdHVfZd2E

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 11, 2021

The GOP has shrunk dramatically since the 1/6 attack. Right now, today, they are desperately trying to quiet the ceaseless insanity that is plain for all to see and make the murderous insurrection fade away. The entire campaign is fear based. The core of the message is that Black

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 11, 2021

The 1619 Project is slandered through the maliced delusions of extremist politicians who portray an academic report as an advancing Panzer Division of black fury aimed at razing western civilization, European culture and white lives. There is a reason for (5)

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 11, 2021

our nation and it has defined our history. Anyone who doesn’t understand this falls somewhere on a spectrum between ignorant and delusional. We are a nation that is great enough to face our past. We can both celebrate our glories, triumphs and achievements while learning (7)

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for newly freed Black Americans exhausted itself by 1876 with the end of reconstruction. Southern Blacks lived in an unjust, violent apartheid state for the next 80+ years. This is American history. Our story is long and complex. Let’s use our history to perfect our Union. (9)

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 11, 2021

That isn’t history. It’s an obscenity. Healthy free countries don’t build walls to keep their people from leaving and they don’t attempt to erase reality by building an alternate one. Perhaps there is a lesson from Germany. The Modern German Reichstag in (11)

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 11, 2021

remarkable building scarred from the vicious fighting that raged until Nazism was finally crushed. There is a powerful monument that shows the moment German democracy died. Tucked in a corner is a wall fitted with small plaques naming the elected members of the Reichstag during

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 11, 2021

The light is the answer. The truth is the answer. We can face it as a nation because we are strong enough to do it. John Lewis was right when he observed that no matter how we have arrived at this moment together we are in fact all here together now. 15

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We can’t change the past but we can learn from it. America’s kids don’t need legislation to protect them from the 1619 project. America’s kids need journalists, pro democracy elected officials and a lot of their parents to wake up, pull their heads out of their asses and realize

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 11, 2021