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What Trump and his allies are doing now isn't new. There's a long American tradition of overturning elections and the democratic will in favor of installing white supremacist regimes. It happened throughout the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction South. A history thread:

In 1898, two days after Black politicians won election in Wilmington, NC, a mob of more than 2,000 whites led an insurrection in which they killed 60-300 African Americans, burned down the only Black newspaper in town, and overthrew the democratically elected local government.

This violent act of white supremacist terrorism was originally referred to as the "Wilmington Race Riot." Three years later, Charles Aycock, one of the men who led the coup and instigated the violence, won election as Governor of North Carolina on a platform of white supremacy.

In 1874, African Americans were a majority in Eufaula, AL and had been electing Black Republicans to local office. On election, the White League, a white supremacist paramilitary group, launched an attack on African American voters at the polls.