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The GOP's most recent grassroots hero
It would be funny if it weren't so disturbing.
Republicans, their
propagandists and their
enablers
have been whining about Republicans being called on their racism. Which
was particularly revealing in the context of attempting to defend
having
accused President Obama of racism. All of which was the opening act to Republicans
falling all over
themselves in
gushing support of a
locked and loaded, ostensibly anti-government
deadbeat social welfare recipient, who just shockingly—
shockingly!— turned out to be a
frothing racist.
Now, to be clear, as DCCC Chair
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) recently graciously admitted, not all Republicans are racists. But Republicans do continue to pursue
racist political
policies. And Republican leaders do have a problem confronting the
overt racism festering within their party. And Republicans do continue to make systematic efforts
to prevent black people from voting. Whether it's using the
zombie lie of
voter fraud as an
excuse to
legislate disenfranchisement or the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority
gutting the Voting Rights Act to make it easier to
legislate disenfranchisement or whether it's straight up
voter intimidation, Republicans use every available means to try to
prevent African Americans from participating in representative government. Republicans use every
excuse to prevent immigrants from becoming
citizens.
But this is about so much more than policy. It's about who these
people are. It's about values. It's about projecting their own lack of
humanity on others, and attempting to use their historical and
institutional privileges to enforce it. No matter their excuses for
their racist policy positions, they reveal themselves by their
repetitive habit of what too often are excused as verbal gaffes, too
often excused with half-assed apologies and almost always excused as
isolated incidents that are emblematic of nothing. But they are not
isolated instances. They are part of a repetitive pattern. They keep
happening. And they reveal the real animus behind the policy positions
that do not but coincidentally hurt minorities.
Join me over the fold for more. Much, much more.
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