The Republican mantra "Back the Blue" is another euphemism for "maintain white supremacy"

     Many Americans express dismay at how Republicans keep repeating the phrase "Back the Blue" to express support for law enforcement, while at the same time refusing to recognize the stresses put on Capitol Police by the January 6th insurrection attempt spurred on by former President Donald Trump, and their constant attacks on the FBI and Department of Justice. Republican support of local law enforcement and opposition to Federal Law Enforcement is a holdover from the days of Brown v. Board of Education. Republicans have traditionally opposed Federal Law Enforcement, which is responsible for enforcing Federal Civil Rights laws, while supporting local sheriffs and police departments, which often include individuals who harbor white supremacist beliefs. A perfect example of that relationship is the June 1964 murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, three Civil Rights workers who traveled to Mississippi to register African-Americans to vote. After the workers disappeared, it was later discovered, as a result of an FBI investigation, that they had been murdered by a local chapter of the Klu Klux Klan, along with assistance from local Sheriffs.

    Republican support of extremist wing-nuts such as members of the "Constitutional Sheriffs Association" and their support for murderers such as former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin or the Mississippi police who murdered a black youth execution style for shop-lifting from a dollar store is all linked back to the tendency of local officers in many jurisdictions to ignore crimes by white criminals and to view the law as a means to support notions of white supremacy. the exact same Republicans who insist that the January 6th insurrectionists shouldn't face any legal penalty for ransacking the offices of lawmakers have no problem insisting that "while maybe that kid should have followed the officers instructions," because in the minds of the modern conservative, the law does not exist to impose penalties on white people. It exists to maintain a Confederate Model of Propaganda that includes conservative notions of a permanent racial order.