Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #racialresentment
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"It was as if my very presence in the White House had triggered a deep-seated panic, a sense that the natural order had been disrupted...For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House, [DJT] promised an elixir for their racial anxiety"
cnn.com/2020/11/12/pol…
cnn.com/2020/11/12/pol…
"Through Palin, it seemed as if the dark spirits that had long been lurking on the edges of the [GOP] - xenophobia, anti intellectualism, paranoid conspiracy theories, an antipathy toward Black and brown folks - were finding their way to center stage."
cnn.com/2020/11/12/pol…
cnn.com/2020/11/12/pol…
Obama is right to highlight #racialresentment over #economicanxiety when it comes to the GOP's messaging. He's also right to highlight the role of Palin, and of course by extension the hallowed John McCain!, in the run-up to Trump, as I have argued here:
theintercept.com/2018/08/27/hol…
theintercept.com/2018/08/27/hol…
