All more or less accurate except for the “most Republicans” at the beginning. I was raised in Republican states, my family has been traditionally Republican for at least 3 generations. Sooner or later, in my experience, the racist talk creeps in.
Same but it's gotten so much worse in my family than the usual flavor of GOP racism, sexism and homophobia that they used to display. It's open and shameless now. My sister married a lovely, well educated Jewish man decades ago and it seemed to be accepted gracefully for years but now she's a faith and race traitor for marrying a Jew and "is going to hell". I'm a faith traitor for marrying agnostic white man, also on the greased skids to hell. I'm estranged from the lot of them for over a decade so I'm hearing this from my sister who is also estranged now. Orders of magnitudes worse.
Racism in America has been paramount since the first White person set foot on American soil. The Native American Indian tribes, or First Peoples of N. America, could have taught us so much about how to live in Nature and that give and take is mandatory or else you rape the land. Instead, like the buffalo, American greed in the land of opportunity wiped out millions of people. The story of racism in the non-fiction work of Isabel Wilkerson is an incredible documentary of racism against the Black community, and that racism still exists and is a truly pathetic message of American hypocrisy (i.e., love our Black athletes but treat Blacks with disdain), (e.g., "see my African-American," says Trump).
Mike details the myriad examples of Trump's racism and "rapism." I have coined, I think, a new word to describe the dismantling and destruction of freedom, liberty, human rights, dignity, courtesy that Trump has displayed and yet Americans vote for this slimy piece of shit.
I love diversity in everything; it is Nature's (or the Creators, or the Creations) desired modus operandi. Yes, there are Blacks, Jews, Italians, Irish, Moslems, etc. that may be criminals, or they may be "bad apples" insofar as ethical behavior. I am a Jew and am ashamed that Stephen Miller is such an odious "thing" in Trump's administration. But Trump and his acorns are all manifestations of the same disgusting genealogy. The sad commentary is that in 2025 we are back to 1933 and for all practical purposes, those that remain silent in this American Nazi Era, are no different from the German population that remained silent while their Jewish neighbors were being beaten, or shot, or the homes and belongings stolen.
Many object to my use of the word Fascist when it comes to Trump, his Administration, and to the Republican Congress. That fascist mentality must also be present to a degree in many of our "fellow" Americans. We are seeing a live presentation of the King Wears No Clothes and it is astounding that so many in our country, including some of my own family, don't see the King for what he is and what is kingdom is doing. The meme of Trump in his shit-dropping plane is more than a meme: an image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users. Instead, it is a cartoon version of what Trump has done to this country and to many of its people, citizens and non-citizens.
Yes, I agree that there is now far less illegal immigration. Yes, I agree that the Democratic Party has been effete in serious legislation and that we have not had a decent POTUS in the Democratic Party or Republican Party for as long as I can remember. But Trump is destroying this country, and is doing the same globally. Sure, he brokered a peace between Hamas and Israel, but that hostile relationship is far from over. Yes, the hostages, at least all the surviving ones, were returned to Israel. What transactions Trump may have brokered with those in the Middle East, we will likely not know for years.
There is so much to be done to restore our Planet, and we cannot even restore our country. And that is a laugh, a sick laugh, because our Lady Liberty has been raped, and those witness to these crimes against the American people continue without the Republican Congress speaking up- because they are co-conspirators in the overt act to Destroy our Great Experiment (DOGE). Racism, among other things, like Fascism, are alive and thriving, here in the good ol' USA. Now, what are we going to do about it, fellow Americans?
"Democrats have their own version of this—factions they tolerate for votes, positions they don’t fully defend, rhetoric they condemn while relying on the energy it generates."
I'm trying to find a way to accept this, but to me it sounds both-siderist; I don't see a large faction within the Democratic Party that is as morally bankrupt and repugnant as the white supremacist faction that has been lurking within the Republican Party. Certainly, there are factions within the Democratic Party that I disagree with. But maybe I'm just not looking hard enough; please elucidate.
Glenn, you should look back at Mike Brock’s essays on 10/24, “The Liberal Populist Path,” and 10/30, “The Democratic Establishment is a Dead ManWalking.” Those are somewhat representative of his thinking on the Democrats version of this. The latter of those two suggests the very dire situation the Party is in right now. I no longer consider myself a Democrat, but I support selected Democrats and Independents. I refuse to give to DSCC or DCCC because of this dead leadership. I do give a little to the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA), because some of those politicians are not completely moribund.
I also take some umbrage at Phillip Murphy’s attempts to demonize the liberals who like Bernie. But that is one of the signs of the Democrats version also.
I have read the referenced essays, and while they do indeed make a powerful case that the leadership of the Democratic Party is bankrupt of ideas and has gone astray down a "neoliberal" path in which any market intervention is forbidden because it might be seen as "communist" or "socialist" (two words that have entirely lost their meaning thanks to the efforts of the Republicans), I still don't see the Democratic Party as containing an influential faction that is anywhere near the equivalent of the white supremacist factions of the Republican Party, which have been hiding in plain sight...well, since the founding of the United States. Not to mention the misogynists, homophobes, "Christian" theocrats, and many others I probably missed.
Some of the Bernie Bros. who are completely intolerant of Jews b/c they view them as "colonizers". Sure, they're different in kind from white supremacists. But they're a faction that the party tolerates. Difference is, they have very little power in the party.
Are they actually antisemitic or merely opposed to the policies of the Israeli government with respect to the expansion of the settlements? I personally disagree with the Israeli government’s policies and actions, but do not believe myself to be antisemitic. Some people, however, do not consider there to be a difference; for them, criticizing the Israeli government is antisemitic. Just like for some Republicans, criticizing Trump is treasonous.
(How can a Bernie Bro be intolerant of Jews? Isn’t Bernie Jewish?)
I never used the term anti-Semitic. But some of them are, if not in name, then in practice.
The people I'm talking about are doing things like harassing Jewish people on college campuses. Why are they doing that? Many if not most American Jews also dislike Bibi. They believe Israel should have a right to exist, and support a free Palestine, but they're not "from the river to the sea" people either. Nor do they support Palestinians being regarded as second-class citizens. But they're fine with wiping out Hamas. That's where most American Jews are. The Bernie Bro types I'm describing have no tolerance for these Jews.
The take-home is, the Dems control them. The GOP doesn't control that faction of their party.
In answer to your question, they don't know Bernie's Jewish, and he's been mostly silent on Israel.
I agree that harassing Jews on college campuses to protest Netanyahu crosses the line, unless those Jews are protesting in favor of Netanyahu and the destruction of the Palestinian people. I believe Hamas leadership should be tried in international courts for the actions 2 years ago, but I'm not fine with wiping out an entire people and region in the vague interests of "wiping out Hamas". Anyway, this does not strike me as a faction the Democratic Party tolerates or courts the votes of - unlike AIPAC, which both parties actively court the votes of, and appears to support the Israeli government's war on Gaza (https://www.aipac.org/gaza-war-faqs made me nauseous) - so this discussion is entirely beside the point.
I know you repeat that most of the party isn’t racist. And, while I’ll allow that for this purpose, I don’t agree. The MSG rally was a full press racist affront to those of us who had hoped that at least some progress has been made. I watched as speaker after speaker denigrated Black and Brown people,even making fun of Puerto Rico. Instead of causing their support to slip, it seemed like the party gained support. Now we have folks on social media dressed as black women in full black face — and wearing a cap over her hair, eyelashes, long nails, and hoop earrings. And she was telling black women that they were not dressed properly for the fight they will invariably get into — they are after all, black women. She got called out and may have lost her Tik Tok account. An earlier racial slur cost her a job. But being supremely ugly to hurt a group of people was her whole point. This shocked me, and, frankly, shook me. Plus, the misogyny is off the charts — encouraging girls to forego college and have babies at a young age so they can have lots. This is based on the fear that white supremacy will be replaced when the country has more minorities than white people. So, they are not just saying racist things, they are living in a way that prevents the loss of white power. And it’s genuine. How far is that from hurting or killing a black man dating your white sister? It needs to be dealt with not hidden or approved. The fact that JD was providing cover for the racist Young Republicans shows the rot is at the top. I think you might have let a bunch of politicians off the hook for their own racism — we are uncomfortable with racism because we are not racists. Why are they not equally uncomfortable?
what non-racist Republicans fail to understand is the power of algorithmic radicalization. Vivek's profile in the many databases online make it so that content intended to radicalize people with even the slightest susceptibility never crossed his feed. but it was slowly ratcheting other people online to more radical positions. Peter Theil and Elon understand this. They engineered it. it's happening with racism, Christian nationalism, 2a fear mongering, masculinity, etc. Maybe people find themselves getting caught up in multiple streams of radicalization. It can happen to people on the left too, but at this moment when the top 10 richest people in the world have swung decisively rightward, the right radicalizing algorithms are much better funded than the left ones. if anything, people on the left are being demoralized and confused to the point that they accept the fascist fait accomplit.
"Most will choose accommodation. Not because they’re racist—most aren’t. But because purging means losing elections. Means admitting the coalition depended on a faction whose presence was indefensible."
They will choose accommodation for the same reason Reagan closely embraced the Evangelical Christians. Without them, the traditional Republicans can't win elections. In the mid 1970's registered Republicans were about 20% of the electorate, and Democrats were near 50%. That embrace of Evangelicals, coupled with the "Southern Strategy" were the waves that the New Right rode to their current state.
And a lot of the Never Trump former Republicans fail to recognize their complicity in this (as well as the genesis of Reagan in this progression)
I’m sure that both Dinesh D’Sousa and Vikram Ramaswany are aware of Idi Amin’s forced expulsion of East Asians from Uganda in 1972. British colonialism had imported non-African — ie closer to white-looking — nationals from their colonies in East and southern Asia in the 1800s to act as a collective buffer between the colonists and the colonized in Africa and the West Indies. On many levels, Amin’s actions in 1972 are analogous to the objectives of the MAGA agenda both culturally and politically. As in Uganda, there may also be financial implications — especially if the US economy doesn’t hold. Certainly the current leverage Patel, D’Sousa, and Ramaswamy hold is real, but they shouldn’t kid themselves and ignore history: their influence also rests on the sufferance of Trump and his MAGA contingent. The tale of the scorpion and the crocodile may be instructive….
In Steven Pinker’s book, “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows,” there’s an excellent discussion of how what was once private knowledge - for example, that the Republican Party has long counted on racist and religio-fascist voters without admitting as much - becomes public or common knowledge (where I know that you know that I know that you know, etc.). Namely, through normalization of the private knowledge - which is a process, not an event - where previously forbidden or private knowledge, information, actions, and affiliations are made socially acceptable and, hence, allow for public coordination and cooperation of those who believe or belong. Trump can rightfully be blamed for normalizing white supremacy racists and religio-fascists over two or more decades such that their once publicly unacceptable beliefs have become common knowledge - at least within the Republican Party. Thanks to Trump - and to the power accommodations that mainstream Republicans have made with white supremacy and religio-fascist groups - these groups have slithered into the light and are now publicly and unashamedly co-opting the Republican Party for their own ends. Like a cancer that has gone untreated, Republican Nazis have metastasized to Stage 4…
Laying it all out this way is exquisite, a great service. To go two more steps: 1) even non-racist Repugnicans are compromised in their thinking -- their ideas are completely discredited, not valid, as they are merely obstructionist in the grand experiment in democracy, hankering for some form of preferential privilege; 2) racists need "deprogramming". This, too is a human failing we need to address.
Both problems arise from "strict parenting" rather than "nurturant parenting" - children growing up in "obedience training" (for dogs) default to insecurity, rigidity, emotional immaturity, and hostility to change. Their innate intelligence and capability leads them to prey upon others, often rising to the top in their fields, causing this awful civil imbalance and confusion about how a normally emotionally mature person is supposed to act. "Normal", emotionally mature people represent the evolution of our species, and we need to rise to the importance of culture to correct the imbalance and work toward the promise of equal justice under the law and civil behavior in politics.
That doesn’t explain differences in political views among siblings. My sis and I are “liberal” and my brother is “conservative” and yet we all had the same parents.
Similar in my family, a bunch of MAGA, one liberal, (Me: Which made for great family get togethers as everyone tried their best to steamroll or convert me. Nope I failed in obedience training.) and one never trumper who woke up in 2015. Every one of us had a different childhood in the same household with the same parents. If you carefully look back you will se that this is true of your family as well plus the difference your female experiences/perspectives give you.
D'Souza also likes to point at how the New Deal coalition included a pack of southeastern racists and argue that they never actually left the Democratic Party (never mind that Goldwater won the five Deep South states in 1964, before the Voting Rights Act passed).
I cannot quite agree with the idea that the people who made the bargain to tolerate racist for the votes aren’t themselves racists. Each of them would find a convenient victim for their racism while excluding others which isn’t necessarily unique or odd.
The surprise could be characterized with the classic facing leopard meme. They all belong to the face eating leopard country club, but they never expected that the country club had a taste for cannibalism.
All more or less accurate except for the “most Republicans” at the beginning. I was raised in Republican states, my family has been traditionally Republican for at least 3 generations. Sooner or later, in my experience, the racist talk creeps in.
Same but it's gotten so much worse in my family than the usual flavor of GOP racism, sexism and homophobia that they used to display. It's open and shameless now. My sister married a lovely, well educated Jewish man decades ago and it seemed to be accepted gracefully for years but now she's a faith and race traitor for marrying a Jew and "is going to hell". I'm a faith traitor for marrying agnostic white man, also on the greased skids to hell. I'm estranged from the lot of them for over a decade so I'm hearing this from my sister who is also estranged now. Orders of magnitudes worse.
Racism in America has been paramount since the first White person set foot on American soil. The Native American Indian tribes, or First Peoples of N. America, could have taught us so much about how to live in Nature and that give and take is mandatory or else you rape the land. Instead, like the buffalo, American greed in the land of opportunity wiped out millions of people. The story of racism in the non-fiction work of Isabel Wilkerson is an incredible documentary of racism against the Black community, and that racism still exists and is a truly pathetic message of American hypocrisy (i.e., love our Black athletes but treat Blacks with disdain), (e.g., "see my African-American," says Trump).
Mike details the myriad examples of Trump's racism and "rapism." I have coined, I think, a new word to describe the dismantling and destruction of freedom, liberty, human rights, dignity, courtesy that Trump has displayed and yet Americans vote for this slimy piece of shit.
I love diversity in everything; it is Nature's (or the Creators, or the Creations) desired modus operandi. Yes, there are Blacks, Jews, Italians, Irish, Moslems, etc. that may be criminals, or they may be "bad apples" insofar as ethical behavior. I am a Jew and am ashamed that Stephen Miller is such an odious "thing" in Trump's administration. But Trump and his acorns are all manifestations of the same disgusting genealogy. The sad commentary is that in 2025 we are back to 1933 and for all practical purposes, those that remain silent in this American Nazi Era, are no different from the German population that remained silent while their Jewish neighbors were being beaten, or shot, or the homes and belongings stolen.
Many object to my use of the word Fascist when it comes to Trump, his Administration, and to the Republican Congress. That fascist mentality must also be present to a degree in many of our "fellow" Americans. We are seeing a live presentation of the King Wears No Clothes and it is astounding that so many in our country, including some of my own family, don't see the King for what he is and what is kingdom is doing. The meme of Trump in his shit-dropping plane is more than a meme: an image, video, piece of text, etc., that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by internet users. Instead, it is a cartoon version of what Trump has done to this country and to many of its people, citizens and non-citizens.
Yes, I agree that there is now far less illegal immigration. Yes, I agree that the Democratic Party has been effete in serious legislation and that we have not had a decent POTUS in the Democratic Party or Republican Party for as long as I can remember. But Trump is destroying this country, and is doing the same globally. Sure, he brokered a peace between Hamas and Israel, but that hostile relationship is far from over. Yes, the hostages, at least all the surviving ones, were returned to Israel. What transactions Trump may have brokered with those in the Middle East, we will likely not know for years.
There is so much to be done to restore our Planet, and we cannot even restore our country. And that is a laugh, a sick laugh, because our Lady Liberty has been raped, and those witness to these crimes against the American people continue without the Republican Congress speaking up- because they are co-conspirators in the overt act to Destroy our Great Experiment (DOGE). Racism, among other things, like Fascism, are alive and thriving, here in the good ol' USA. Now, what are we going to do about it, fellow Americans?
"Democrats have their own version of this—factions they tolerate for votes, positions they don’t fully defend, rhetoric they condemn while relying on the energy it generates."
I'm trying to find a way to accept this, but to me it sounds both-siderist; I don't see a large faction within the Democratic Party that is as morally bankrupt and repugnant as the white supremacist faction that has been lurking within the Republican Party. Certainly, there are factions within the Democratic Party that I disagree with. But maybe I'm just not looking hard enough; please elucidate.
Glenn, you should look back at Mike Brock’s essays on 10/24, “The Liberal Populist Path,” and 10/30, “The Democratic Establishment is a Dead ManWalking.” Those are somewhat representative of his thinking on the Democrats version of this. The latter of those two suggests the very dire situation the Party is in right now. I no longer consider myself a Democrat, but I support selected Democrats and Independents. I refuse to give to DSCC or DCCC because of this dead leadership. I do give a little to the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA), because some of those politicians are not completely moribund.
I also take some umbrage at Phillip Murphy’s attempts to demonize the liberals who like Bernie. But that is one of the signs of the Democrats version also.
I have read the referenced essays, and while they do indeed make a powerful case that the leadership of the Democratic Party is bankrupt of ideas and has gone astray down a "neoliberal" path in which any market intervention is forbidden because it might be seen as "communist" or "socialist" (two words that have entirely lost their meaning thanks to the efforts of the Republicans), I still don't see the Democratic Party as containing an influential faction that is anywhere near the equivalent of the white supremacist factions of the Republican Party, which have been hiding in plain sight...well, since the founding of the United States. Not to mention the misogynists, homophobes, "Christian" theocrats, and many others I probably missed.
Some of the Bernie Bros. who are completely intolerant of Jews b/c they view them as "colonizers". Sure, they're different in kind from white supremacists. But they're a faction that the party tolerates. Difference is, they have very little power in the party.
Are they actually antisemitic or merely opposed to the policies of the Israeli government with respect to the expansion of the settlements? I personally disagree with the Israeli government’s policies and actions, but do not believe myself to be antisemitic. Some people, however, do not consider there to be a difference; for them, criticizing the Israeli government is antisemitic. Just like for some Republicans, criticizing Trump is treasonous.
(How can a Bernie Bro be intolerant of Jews? Isn’t Bernie Jewish?)
I never used the term anti-Semitic. But some of them are, if not in name, then in practice.
The people I'm talking about are doing things like harassing Jewish people on college campuses. Why are they doing that? Many if not most American Jews also dislike Bibi. They believe Israel should have a right to exist, and support a free Palestine, but they're not "from the river to the sea" people either. Nor do they support Palestinians being regarded as second-class citizens. But they're fine with wiping out Hamas. That's where most American Jews are. The Bernie Bro types I'm describing have no tolerance for these Jews.
The take-home is, the Dems control them. The GOP doesn't control that faction of their party.
In answer to your question, they don't know Bernie's Jewish, and he's been mostly silent on Israel.
I agree that harassing Jews on college campuses to protest Netanyahu crosses the line, unless those Jews are protesting in favor of Netanyahu and the destruction of the Palestinian people. I believe Hamas leadership should be tried in international courts for the actions 2 years ago, but I'm not fine with wiping out an entire people and region in the vague interests of "wiping out Hamas". Anyway, this does not strike me as a faction the Democratic Party tolerates or courts the votes of - unlike AIPAC, which both parties actively court the votes of, and appears to support the Israeli government's war on Gaza (https://www.aipac.org/gaza-war-faqs made me nauseous) - so this discussion is entirely beside the point.
I know you repeat that most of the party isn’t racist. And, while I’ll allow that for this purpose, I don’t agree. The MSG rally was a full press racist affront to those of us who had hoped that at least some progress has been made. I watched as speaker after speaker denigrated Black and Brown people,even making fun of Puerto Rico. Instead of causing their support to slip, it seemed like the party gained support. Now we have folks on social media dressed as black women in full black face — and wearing a cap over her hair, eyelashes, long nails, and hoop earrings. And she was telling black women that they were not dressed properly for the fight they will invariably get into — they are after all, black women. She got called out and may have lost her Tik Tok account. An earlier racial slur cost her a job. But being supremely ugly to hurt a group of people was her whole point. This shocked me, and, frankly, shook me. Plus, the misogyny is off the charts — encouraging girls to forego college and have babies at a young age so they can have lots. This is based on the fear that white supremacy will be replaced when the country has more minorities than white people. So, they are not just saying racist things, they are living in a way that prevents the loss of white power. And it’s genuine. How far is that from hurting or killing a black man dating your white sister? It needs to be dealt with not hidden or approved. The fact that JD was providing cover for the racist Young Republicans shows the rot is at the top. I think you might have let a bunch of politicians off the hook for their own racism — we are uncomfortable with racism because we are not racists. Why are they not equally uncomfortable?
what non-racist Republicans fail to understand is the power of algorithmic radicalization. Vivek's profile in the many databases online make it so that content intended to radicalize people with even the slightest susceptibility never crossed his feed. but it was slowly ratcheting other people online to more radical positions. Peter Theil and Elon understand this. They engineered it. it's happening with racism, Christian nationalism, 2a fear mongering, masculinity, etc. Maybe people find themselves getting caught up in multiple streams of radicalization. It can happen to people on the left too, but at this moment when the top 10 richest people in the world have swung decisively rightward, the right radicalizing algorithms are much better funded than the left ones. if anything, people on the left are being demoralized and confused to the point that they accept the fascist fait accomplit.
Dinesh is respectable? Yeah, no. Lol.
No. He’s not.
My thoughts precisely...
"Most will choose accommodation. Not because they’re racist—most aren’t. But because purging means losing elections. Means admitting the coalition depended on a faction whose presence was indefensible."
Because for them, the ends justify the means
They will choose accommodation for the same reason Reagan closely embraced the Evangelical Christians. Without them, the traditional Republicans can't win elections. In the mid 1970's registered Republicans were about 20% of the electorate, and Democrats were near 50%. That embrace of Evangelicals, coupled with the "Southern Strategy" were the waves that the New Right rode to their current state.
And a lot of the Never Trump former Republicans fail to recognize their complicity in this (as well as the genesis of Reagan in this progression)
I’m sure that both Dinesh D’Sousa and Vikram Ramaswany are aware of Idi Amin’s forced expulsion of East Asians from Uganda in 1972. British colonialism had imported non-African — ie closer to white-looking — nationals from their colonies in East and southern Asia in the 1800s to act as a collective buffer between the colonists and the colonized in Africa and the West Indies. On many levels, Amin’s actions in 1972 are analogous to the objectives of the MAGA agenda both culturally and politically. As in Uganda, there may also be financial implications — especially if the US economy doesn’t hold. Certainly the current leverage Patel, D’Sousa, and Ramaswamy hold is real, but they shouldn’t kid themselves and ignore history: their influence also rests on the sufferance of Trump and his MAGA contingent. The tale of the scorpion and the crocodile may be instructive….
In Steven Pinker’s book, “When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows,” there’s an excellent discussion of how what was once private knowledge - for example, that the Republican Party has long counted on racist and religio-fascist voters without admitting as much - becomes public or common knowledge (where I know that you know that I know that you know, etc.). Namely, through normalization of the private knowledge - which is a process, not an event - where previously forbidden or private knowledge, information, actions, and affiliations are made socially acceptable and, hence, allow for public coordination and cooperation of those who believe or belong. Trump can rightfully be blamed for normalizing white supremacy racists and religio-fascists over two or more decades such that their once publicly unacceptable beliefs have become common knowledge - at least within the Republican Party. Thanks to Trump - and to the power accommodations that mainstream Republicans have made with white supremacy and religio-fascist groups - these groups have slithered into the light and are now publicly and unashamedly co-opting the Republican Party for their own ends. Like a cancer that has gone untreated, Republican Nazis have metastasized to Stage 4…
Laying it all out this way is exquisite, a great service. To go two more steps: 1) even non-racist Repugnicans are compromised in their thinking -- their ideas are completely discredited, not valid, as they are merely obstructionist in the grand experiment in democracy, hankering for some form of preferential privilege; 2) racists need "deprogramming". This, too is a human failing we need to address.
Both problems arise from "strict parenting" rather than "nurturant parenting" - children growing up in "obedience training" (for dogs) default to insecurity, rigidity, emotional immaturity, and hostility to change. Their innate intelligence and capability leads them to prey upon others, often rising to the top in their fields, causing this awful civil imbalance and confusion about how a normally emotionally mature person is supposed to act. "Normal", emotionally mature people represent the evolution of our species, and we need to rise to the importance of culture to correct the imbalance and work toward the promise of equal justice under the law and civil behavior in politics.
That doesn’t explain differences in political views among siblings. My sis and I are “liberal” and my brother is “conservative” and yet we all had the same parents.
Similar in my family, a bunch of MAGA, one liberal, (Me: Which made for great family get togethers as everyone tried their best to steamroll or convert me. Nope I failed in obedience training.) and one never trumper who woke up in 2015. Every one of us had a different childhood in the same household with the same parents. If you carefully look back you will se that this is true of your family as well plus the difference your female experiences/perspectives give you.
Most of the respectable, non-racist Republicans have left the party. The party of Lincoln is no more.
No truer words about the party of Lincoln. It is anti-Lincoln now by every measure.
D'Souza also likes to point at how the New Deal coalition included a pack of southeastern racists and argue that they never actually left the Democratic Party (never mind that Goldwater won the five Deep South states in 1964, before the Voting Rights Act passed).
Why am I reminded of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7X5WAswVs4
Lol, lmao. If only they had ears to hear and eyes to see like Bill Kristol at least.
I cannot quite agree with the idea that the people who made the bargain to tolerate racist for the votes aren’t themselves racists. Each of them would find a convenient victim for their racism while excluding others which isn’t necessarily unique or odd.
The surprise could be characterized with the classic facing leopard meme. They all belong to the face eating leopard country club, but they never expected that the country club had a taste for cannibalism.
It is a shitshow — the shit has been shown. What’s inside has been revealed.