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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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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C'mon, you know the GOP doesn't care about Polish people
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I think the problem is that Kemp (1) had basically no constituency for his “extreme supply side economics” plus “less racism” platform and (2) his “less racism” platform didn’t contain much of anything to actually improve the lot of POC. So it’s not clear he’s much of a model.
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Sometimes theory collided head-on with reality. I toured a housing project with Kemp. He was chatty, enthusiastic, mingling, talked a 100 miles a minute. When he suggested public housing residents buy their apartments they looked at him like he had 3 heads. They wanted to leave.
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The Kemp wing had potential successors, like Paul Ryan (a Kemp acolyte if memory serves) but that wing seems defeated at least for the intermediate term. Trumpism in many ways is in fact a triumph of Buchananite views.
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