3. You might think that the "whiteness" of Irish Catholics or Ashkenazi Jews was settled a long time ago in America, say 1945 at the latest. But in fact, there's an element of the right that has never been fully comfortable with that expansion of whiteness.
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By Jeet's standard, there is no world except perfect parity between parties in which identity politics wouldn't be the highest and best explanatory framework. "African Americans favor Democrats, meaning GOP is whiter, which means GOP must actively favor white people".
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Also this whole line of attack is not well-thought-outhttps://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2014/09/10/93-democratic-senate-governor-candidates-white/ …
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The assumption here is that GOP voters have no role in fact that 85-90 of their candidates are white Christian men. That's kind of absurd.
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Have you actually looked at GOP primary contests over the years? Your recollection of Sarah Palin being unpopular with base GOP voters, for example, is rather different than mine.
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They had a slate of talented and diverse GOP choices for president and they chose Trump.
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