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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Replying to @Victor_Asal
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.
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Replying to @Joshua_Pollack @Victor_Asal
and that nearly every other elected official in his party seems basically OK with it
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Replying to @wellerstein @Victor_Asal
They’ve gotta take their voters into account, regardless of what they think themselves.
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Replying to @wellerstein @Victor_Asal
Where’s Peng Dehuai when you need him?
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Replying to @Joshua_Pollack @Victor_Asal
"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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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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