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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, December 24, 2017

Racist Is As Racist Does

Donald Trump, Ladies and Gentlemen

If we are looking at this era in American politics from the near distant future, I hope we see it as the last gasp of the viability of racist politics.  For years - since Nixon - the GOP has been winning elections by wedding racists with economic elitists.  The election of 2016 was a stark example of the divide in our country between those who feel comfortable living with different people (city and some suburban dwellers) and those who don't (exurban and rural dwellers).  It required a perfect run of luck in a few Rust Belt states.  But Trump has perfectly exposed what the base of the GOP truly is. 

Will it make a difference?

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