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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2021

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2021

      2. It's true that Trump in 2020 showed GOP can be competitive with Latino voters (and to a lesser extent other POC voters). But that's not something GOP can bet on: it could be due to incumbent effect (which benefit Bush Jr. in 2004 & Obama in 2012).

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2021

      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.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2021

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2021

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2021

      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. Diamond Daibhid James‏ @DiamondDaibhidJ 3 Jun 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      I have a book written by a staffer on the 92 GOP campaign (forget who) with a chapter on Kemp's outreach attempt to get an endorsement from (wait for it) Farrakhan! He was even into it but they eventually decided he was not worth the risk. Can't even conceive of that now.

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    8. Jesse Walker‏ @notjessewalker 3 Jun 2021
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      '92 or '96? Kemp did have some kind words for Farrakhan when he was the VP candidate. (I don't know the backstory but would not be surprised if Jude Wanniski was involved somehow.)https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/us/kemp-praises-farrakhan-for-his-focus-on-family.html …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Jun 2021
      Replying to @notjessewalker @DiamondDaibhidJ

      I forgot about Wanniski and Farrakhan! Wanniski was pretty good on anti-war stuff if I remember.

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        1. Diamond Daibhid James‏ @DiamondDaibhidJ 3 Jun 2021
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          Worth writing about Farrakhan, GOP still always ties him to Democrats even though not only he has never been one but he at least used to be a Republican. I'm assuming he probably isn't anymore.

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