RE: Speaking of GOP presidents...
January 14, 2021 at 1:23 pm
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2021 at 1:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Let's not delude ourselves into thinking that Bush The Elder and Bush the Dumber didn't actively court the white supremacist vote. No republican politician has been able to afford otherwise since the civil rights act.
Racially conservative views are the core identity of the contemporary gop. Nothing about that changed between willie horton and katrina, and it hasn't turned into that since. It was always a snake, and we always knew it was a snake.
I'll give them credit where it's due, though. Both presidents managed to successfully export our violence beyond our borders, in their terms. A pressure valve for what would have otherwise been (more) violence on our own streets. That, I think, more than anything, lead to both men accidentally not fomenting a white supremacist insurrection with their rhetoric and policies. In fact, it was slick willies famous triangulation between both mens views (as representatives of paleo and neoconservatism) and his own parties that form the meat of complaints about clinton on the same issue.
Racially conservative views are the core identity of the contemporary gop. Nothing about that changed between willie horton and katrina, and it hasn't turned into that since. It was always a snake, and we always knew it was a snake.
I'll give them credit where it's due, though. Both presidents managed to successfully export our violence beyond our borders, in their terms. A pressure valve for what would have otherwise been (more) violence on our own streets. That, I think, more than anything, lead to both men accidentally not fomenting a white supremacist insurrection with their rhetoric and policies. In fact, it was slick willies famous triangulation between both mens views (as representatives of paleo and neoconservatism) and his own parties that form the meat of complaints about clinton on the same issue.
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