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I first heard Karen Hunter use the term a while ago, and this morning, Lurie Daniel-Favors said it again on her show\u2014Whytmanastan<\/em>\u2014to describe the vision behind Project 2025 and the fever dream of this administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fictional place?
No, a historical one.
Wait\u2014no, not quite. It\u2019s more like a return. A regression. A reimagining of a time when white men ruled the world\u2014at least in their own minds. And now, they want it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Whytmanastan<\/em>, the Gulf of Mexico no longer exists.
The cotton-pickers are Black.
The Mexicans are illegal.
The white South Africans fleeing \u201cgenocide\u201d are welcomed\u2014because they know how to assimilate<\/em>.
New Navy ships bear names like The Bull Connor<\/em> and SS Trump<\/em>, replacing vessels once named for Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, or Harvey Milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The high-water mark is mediocrity.
There is no hurricane season.
Tim Scott and Byron Donalds get stopped at the border\u2014then denied access or quietly arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whytmanastan<\/em> is no longer a satire. It\u2019s dangerously close to reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because we\u2019ve underestimated how fragile the most violent people on this planet actually are. Fragile because they know they\u2019re outnumbered. Fragile because they know deep down their time is up\u2014but they\u2019re hell-bent on resetting the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em> wasn\u2019t a warning. It was a blueprint. A utopia\u2014not for women, not for freedom, not for justice\u2014but for the white man’s last grasp at control. Sans diversity<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whytmanastan<\/em> almost became America. Maybe it did. But then they started cannibalizing each other soon after they made landfall\u2014until the Indigenous people stepped in and saved them. Fed them. Taught them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And how did whiteness repay them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a country with no culture of its own. No spices. No rhythm. No joy that didn\u2019t come from someone else\u2019s sorrow. A land built on theft and erasure, clinging to the illusion of supremacy while choking on its own blandness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s Whytmanastan<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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