The Right Wing Desperately Wants to Make Charlie Kirk Its MLK

The Right Wing Desperately Wants to Make Charlie Kirk Its MLK


Cast the critic as the “censor.” Rebrand accountability as “persecution.” Where Black organizers built the politics of survival, the conservative movement built the politics of inversion. White racist hegemony has been selling the notion that they are the underdog rebels since concocting the pseudo-historical myth of the Confederate “Lost Cause” in the ashes of post-war Reconstruction. It’s always been the ghost in America’s machine, and the panic in the aftermath of every civil rights gain.

Author: Alain Stephens


Published at: 2025-10-14 21:50:24

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