9. Rather than hold on to New Deal nostalgia, Jackson pushed idea of Rainbow coalition -- Dem's as multicultural party.
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10. As
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11. 11. It's not just winners who make history -- losers can change the terms of debate or the nature of political coalitions.
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12. One thing I'll say for conservatives -- they know how to honor losers. They rightly see Goldwater as a prophet.
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13. Oddly, only people who take Jackson seriously anymore are the hard right. For Limbaugh & Co. he's still good for red meat salivations
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14. To address
@tanehisicoates's question as to why Jackson is still such a potent hate-figure on right, we have to return to 1980s.1 reply 9 retweets 9 likes -
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14. Reagan's America was built on a politics of denial -- racism was not so much denied as not even talked about. Jackson talked about it.
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15. In an America that wanted to pretend racism didn't exist, Jackson was the most vocal voice saying that it did and was important.
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16. The Democratic Party was a multi-racial party before Jackson but it didn't articulate being multi-racial as a key part of its identity.
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17. The idea of a multi-racial party staking its identity on being the national party because it looks like America: that's Jackson's legacy
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18. If we see Jackson as key player in making Dems proudly multiracial (and mainstreaming multiculturalism) -- no wonder he's hated.
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