‘Western Civilization’ Is a MAGA Dog Whistle

‘Western Civilization’ Is a MAGA Dog Whistle

Rubio is wrong to cite it as the basis for the U.S. alliance with Europe.

Bouie: Marco Rubio is failing his Western Civ course

HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington His thoughts on Western civilization in Munich sound more like those of European feudal lords and Confederate apologists. Bouie: Marco Rubio is failing his Western Civ course Wire Service

Marco Rubio is failing Western civ

Americans of the revolutionary generation did not think of themselves as direct heirs to Western civilization, a term that wouldn’t come into vogue until the 20th century. If anything, they saw their new nation as a break with the European past — a new civilization rooted in popular sovereignty and republican self-government.

Marco Rubio’s Cecil Rhodes Moment

By Joe Lauria* – Consortium News The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and Europe alike.” Cecil Rhodes may have been the most unabashed imperialist of the modern era. In his 1877 “Confession of Faith,” he wrote: “I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inh…