A big problem here is treating a phenomenon with a clear historical origin as a chicken-and-egg scenario. When racism (opposition to civil rights and then the Southern Strategy) drove minorities into the Democratic Party, what were Democrats supposed to do, exactly?https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/960550315694215169 …
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Exactly. He treats racial polarization like it's the issue rather than racial bigotry. It reveals a lot about him.
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@DouthatNYT thinks the Civil Rights act, voting rights act, and other such measures were bad choices by Democrats, and racial polarization wasn't as bad during the Jim Crow era when Democrats didn't make these allegedly bad choices
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"As the GOP became increasingly awful, it was asymmetrically unfair of the Democrats to not also become awful"
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