"What then describes the somewhat more than grudging MAGA admiration for Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist and two-time Democratic presidential candidate who died Tuesday? President Donald Trump had a long history with Jackson before entering politics and becoming a right-coded figure himself. Trump's Truth Social post on Jackson's death was surprisingly laudatory, even warm, and slightly more personal than his video tribute to conservative talk-radio icon Rush Limbaugh, who died five years earlier on the same date."
"The Trump nominee Jeremy Carl shared a 1988 Jackson for president commercial, calling it 'one of the best campaign ads I've ever seen.' Vice President J.D. Vance reposted Carl, saying he had a 'close family member' who had only voted in two presidential primaries in her whole life: once for Jackson in 1988 and then for Trump in 2016. A Jackson-Trump voter would at first glance seem like a stranger political specimen than the Obama-Trump voters who helped swing the 2016 election."
Many right-wing figures and some MAGA supporters expressed unexpectedly positive reactions to Jesse Jackson's death, including warm remarks from Donald Trump. Trump had a long history with Jackson prior to his political realignment, and his Truth Social post was more personal than his tribute to Rush Limbaugh. Conservative figures highlighted Jackson's 1988 campaign ad, and Vice President J.D. Vance noted a family member who voted only for Jackson in 1988 and Trump in 2016. Jackson combined left-wing politics with populist appeals aimed at a multiracial working-class coalition that overlaps with themes in contemporary right-wing populism.
Read at The American Conservative
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]