JD Vance Wants to Reboot the Confederacy—with Better PR 🚨

JD Vance Wants to Reboot the Confederacy—with Better PR 🚨

Let’s talk about JD Vance’s recent speech on “heritage citizenship.”

No, it wasn’t just another round of flag-waving, boot-polishing nationalism.

It was a strategy briefing—a signal to far-right allies that they’re ready to redefine Americanness by bloodline, not belief.

Not where you're born. Not what you contribute.

Just who your ancestors were.

Delivered to the Claremont Institute—a far-right think tank and intellectual co-pilot to the Heritage Foundation—this speech wasn’t subtle.

Vance is pushing a version of America that predates the Civil War.

Literally.

➡️ Forget the 14th Amendment. Forget Reconstruction. Forget the whole idea of a multiracial democracy.

This new (old) vision says:

You're only really American if your family tree includes the right kind of names—preferably white men from the Revolutionary War or Civil War (and they’re not picky about which side of the latter).

Yes, Confederate bloodlines welcome.

Black Union soldiers? Black patriots? Not so much.

And if you were born here yesterday, but your ancestry doesn't fit the mold?

Too bad.

🔍 What Vance is selling isn’t new. It’s Dred Scott in a MAGA hat.

“Black people had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”

— Chief Justice Roger Taney, 1857

Sound familiar?

That wasn’t just one man’s opinion. It was baked into the Constitution of 1787—the one Vance and his friends want to resurrect. The one that required a body count to destroy in 1865.

Let’s be clear:

🧬 Heritage citizenship = Racial citizenship.

👥 It's a rebranded hierarchy.

📜 It's a direct assault on the 14th Amendment.

They want a republic where citizenship is earned not through birth, contribution, or belief—but through the right bloodline.

It’s not about patriotism.

It’s about power.

And they’re not hiding it:

🧨 Project 2025 outlines the whole plan:

End birthright citizenship

Roll back civil rights protections

Dismantle DEI programs

Replace history with the 1776 Commission

(a whitewashed, sanitized version of the founding)

This is how they erase Reconstruction.

This is how they undo Brown v. Board.

This is how they gut Roe, Title IX, the Voting Rights Act—and more.

This is how they rebuild the First Republic.

But make no mistake:

This isn’t about returning to the past.

It’s about using the past as a blueprint for a whiter, narrower, more authoritarian America.

And if people don’t start paying attention,

they’re going to succeed—not by force,

but by redefining what it even means to belong.