{"id":8706,"date":"2026-02-16T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/?p=8706"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:55:36","slug":"20260216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/2026\/02\/16\/20260216\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday\u2019s News 2026 02 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – February 15, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s white nationalist project was on full display this weekend at the 62nd Munich Security Conference that took place from February 13 to 15, 2026. …<\/p>\n

… officials in the Trump administration and their media allies have embraced the Great Replacement theory that says Brown and Black migration to Europe and the U.S. is destroying \u201cwestern civilization.\u201d Such migration must be stopped, they argue, and Brown and Black people purged from the U.S. and Europe. The end of equal rights for migrants will enable white Christian men to dominate society and pass laws that reinforce traditional religious and patriarchal hierarchies.
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[Rubio’s] description of that shared heritage reflected the Trump administration\u2019s fantasy past. It was all white and Christian, quite weirdly erasing the Indigenous Americans who were central to the development of a peculiarly \u201cAmerican\u201d identity in the eastern colonies of North America and the reality that the vast majority of the American West was Indigenous, Spanish, and Mexican for hundreds of years before it became part of the United States in 1848.<\/p>\n

Rubio\u2019s version of the U.S. did not include Black Americans at all, even though they were among the first inhabitants of the colonies that became the U.S., and even though he called out the Rolling Stones, who built their body of work on that of Black American blues musicians like Muddy Waters and Howlin\u2019 Wolf, as part of \u201cwestern civilization.\u201d Rubio even ignored his own family\u2019s arrival in the U.S. from Cuba in 1956, rooting his own heritage not in the modern migration from Latin America to the U.S. that the administration is criminalizing, but in eighteenth-century Spain.<\/p>\n

Entirely ignoring the threat of autocratic Russia against Europe, Rubio pushed Europe to abandon the values of democracy in favor of imperialism. …
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\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n

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