The speed with which even people with solidly progressive credentials & education get abruptly declared Problematic is terrifying, all the moreso to people not acculturated in the Byzantine world of academic intersectionality. It's like Sam Gamgee dining at Downton.
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The main driver of American life is not the Washington Post.
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Put tribalism picks up the claim and deceminates it through out the mainstream press so now perry is a racist to the vast majority of people who has never heard of him before running for president. And perry now has to defend against the charge etc
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And Trump doesn't want or need those votes. This is ice-cold calculation about his base and where the EC votes are.
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GWB's record in Texas is another good example, and the way he proved unable to break 90-10 split of AA votes at the national level (buttressed in part by spurious accusations of racism from Ds & media) was a dispiriting example of how tough it was to change even pre-Trump.
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The James Byrd ad was a nasty example. Obama ran Spanish-language radio ads saying McCain & Rush Limbaugh were the same on immigration, which was definitely news to both McCain & Rush.
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Yes, part of the story is that the media actually seems to want Republicans to be racist and so would treat Dubya, Romney, and Perry the same as Trump. There’s a lot of blame to go around.
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When all this is over, I hope the Democrats have a moment of reflection about how treating all GOP candidates as indistinguishably racist helped Trump to say "I'm just one of the guys, no better and no worse." But what I am saying? They won't.
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But to get back to
@cjane87 ‘s original question, a sane and rational political party would care equally about offending both groups of voters because it would want to unite them in its coalition. Let me know when we have one. - End of conversation
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it really hurt him too. look at where he is now
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