1. I want to return to the @EricLevitz piece because it really underscores that the GOP war on democracy is one of choice. It raises the crucial question of why a party would decided to shrink the electorate instead of enlarging their share:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/gop-voting-laws-texas-sb7-war-on-democracy.html …
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3. More to the point, as
@EricLevitz points out, the Tucker Carlson wing of GOP doesn't want party to become more multi-racial. And here some history is useful since these fights were played out in 1980s and 1980s between Pat Buchanan & Jack Kemp.Show this thread -
4. Already under Reagan there was a splintering of GOP into two opposed factions on race: the Jack Kemp approach of outreach & Pat Buchanan approach of low-level race war.
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5. Kemp, even though he was GOP vice presidential candidate in 1996, is almost forgotten today but he tried (unsuccessfully) to push GOP minority outreach with gimmicks like enterprise zones. He & Buchanan were the two poles of party on race & immigration.
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6. I've been re-reading Chronicles, paleo-con & Buchananite journal, and it's striking how much a hate figure Kemp was to right (even though he was a conventional Reaganite). Here he's being called a looter.pic.twitter.com/125iUXsbYb
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7. Everything we're seeing today - not to mention Trump's domination - would indicate that Pat Buchanan won the wars of the 1990s. The party prefers to dominate by shrinking electorate rather than be compromised (as they see it) by POC votes. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/is-the-gop-war-on-democracy-self?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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It could also be because they wanted the country open, which will be a moot point in 2022/2024
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Agreed. Also query how many Latino voters work in the service industry (broadly defined) and were concerned about continuing shutdowns/lockdowns because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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