The GOP weaponizing a tragic murder—while, among other things, rewarding dirty fossil fuel backers & sentencing 1400 ppl/year to death by eviscerating the clean power plan—is GOP politics in a nutshell: fan hate to distract & divide while picking pockets & endangering the public.
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Democrats shouldn't shy away from nailing the GOP's racism. Instead, empirical message testing has found that it's an explosively powerful message to explain that the GOP deliberately fans racial anxiety to distract and divide while ripping people off. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-answer-to-gop-dog-whistles-democrats-should-talk-more-about-race-not-less/2018/08/22/7cfa4d3a-a184-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html …
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@anatosaurus &@IanHaneyLopez has shown, talking about race and class *together*—as in, "We need elected leaders who will put the interests of working people first, whether we’re white, Black or brown"—outperforms simply talking about populist economics w/o race.3 réponses 29 Retweets 98 j'aimeAfficher cette discussion -
For the entire history of this nation, race & gender have been employed to divide and distract from our basic inequalities of CLASS.
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Thank you Ben!!!
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