His strategy is sharply reminiscent of that waged by segregationist George Wallace ... in the 1960s. Republican candidates ... have since used milder variations of race-based politics to try to pry white voters from the Democratic Party.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-identity-politics-drives-trump-and-the-republican-party-under-him/2019/07/16/a5ff5710-a733-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.975fee72df1d&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 …
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He ran on a platform of ethnic cleansing (and trade wars). No one should be surprised at his attitudes. What’s appalling is that it sells.
and that nearly every other elected official in his party seems basically OK with it
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They’ve gotta take their voters into account, regardless of what they think themselves.
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profiles in courage
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Where’s Peng Dehuai when you need him?
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"and I did not speak out, because I was afraid of being called a cuck by my constituents..." doesn't quite have the same ring to it
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They’re afraid of being primaried.
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same deal... racism is racism, and if they can't be bothered to at least lightly disown it, they should scorned. political expediency only goes so far.
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