
© CopyrightThe Trail of Tears, Cherokee Nation by Robert Lindneux In 1838, 4,000 to 8,000 Cherokees died of cold, hunger or exhaustion on the “Trail of Tears.” Under the Indian Removal Act, they left the East Coast of the United States to Europeans and agreed to travel south of the Mississippi River. However, today they are the only Indian tribe that has managed to maintain its way of life without being eradicated by Europeans. This deportation is the example followed by Donald Trump to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian question.
Continuing our analysis of the misinterpretations of the Trump administration's actions, we return to the closure of many federal agencies, the reason why it plans to deport Palestinians, and its approach to the war in Ukraine.This article follows "
Misinterpretations of the Evolution of the United States (1/2)", by Thierry Meyssan, January 28, 2025. (Sott link below)
The Return of SouthernismThe United States was both Southern and Federalist. The Southerners having been defeated at the end of the Civil War,
their victors imposed the myth according to which
this war had pitted slaveholders against abolitionists. In reality, at the beginning of the war,
both sides were pro-slavery and, at the end,
both were abolitionists. The real issue of the conflict was whether customs fell under the jurisdiction of the states or the federal government.
The Jacksonians, precursors of the Southerners,
wanted a "minimal federal state." They thus sent many powers back to the states. This is what Donald Trump did during his first term when he supported sending the issue of abortion from the federal state to the states. Personally, he does not seem to have a strong opinion on this subject. His rival, Kamala Harris, was wrong, as a woke, to present him as a reactionary when half of the states respect women's rights and authorize voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG).
This is one of the main causes of her failure.When Donald Trump announced the creation of a
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), he intended to break up a federal administration that decided from Washington how each citizen should live even 2,500 kilometers away. True, he put a libertarian, Elon Musk, in charge, but he is not trying to slim down the federal government through Reaganite liberalism.
He is going to dissolve thousands of government agencies, not because they are expensive, but because they are, in his eyes, illegitimate.
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