Protestors Storm Capital

[arewethereyet]

The extent to which the gop has become a party of white supremacy is the extent to which it's expression is no longer welcome in the other party and the extent to which it's fundamental principles as espoused by the base are informed by white supremacist propaganda.

As we go back in time, dems were more and more amenable to white supremacy, and the principles the base espoused more and more dependent on the propaganda of white supremacy.  

https://economics.princeton.edu/working-...ld-debate/

Long story short (and picking up where it leaves off) it started in the spring of 1963, and would take twenty years for all of the newly reshuffled voters to find their place (if any) in the new paradigm.  By 1980, voters who were coming of political age in 63 would be older and greater positions of authority and with greater ability or tools to disseminate their ideology.  It would take another 20 years to produce the voters of that demographic, and hey presto, whadda you know, right about then some planes hit some buildings.  

From there, we have the humiliation of bush followed by eight years of a black man in the white house.  Trump was, in a very palpable sense, revenge for obama.  Revenge for the indignity of obama.  Revenge for the illegitimacy of obama.  Revenge for the injustice of white victimization and...fwiw...exactly the kind of person you'd expect to be shitty enough to give you what you wanted...if what you wanted was the reinforcement of white supremacy.

That was a good timeline overview and it is valid that the white supremacists didn't appear from nowhere; they moved from the Democratic party to the GOP as the civil rights movement began to be validated by law.  I sometimes wonder if Wallace had been elected, he might have been an earlier version of Trump.

I've actually heard directly from white people that Trump rose to power because of Obama and even though I understand the racist underpinnings of that, I don't see any logic in it.  What did Obama do to white people except get elected?

That was enough and then some.

Spend some time in the deep south where they don't really hide it and you'll see.  I can't post on here the things thought and said by people I used to live around.

Then you have to realize that it's all over the country...it's just more visible in the south...at least it was until Trump made it okay to loud and proud about being a White Supremacist.  They whispers became shouts when the megaphone was handed to him.

There wasn't silence before.

I had a boss say that he loved his family's maid like his mother but he wouldn't sit down to Sunday dinner with her.  Of course the maid was black.  How do you say those two things in the same sentence without choking on your words?