One key takeaway is that the Southern Strategy-fueled consolidation of racists into the GOP was incomplete until the Democrats put a black man in the White House.
Another takeaway is that white Democrats getting “woke by Trump” is an empirical fact. A klansman in the White House was as eye-opening to progressive whites as a black man in the White House was to racist whites.
That’s what I was getting at when I called Trump the GOP’s abusive “inside face”. The mask is off. White male supremacy runs on denial, and for a lot of us that denial has been at least a little pierced.
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Michael Tesler is more nuanced though in this article, if I’m reading him correctly. The increase in anti-racist positions by white Democrats could partly just be a partisan backlash to Trump. When he’s gone, will that trend weaken?
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The data on Obama-to-Trump voters lines up with other analysis I’ve seen that 2008 Obama was a special case due both to external factors like the Great Recession, and the fact that Obama went out of his way not to challenge white peoples’ racism.
Post-2012, Obama bit his tongue less. That really did make a difference in what we can call the completion of the Southern Strategy.
Hayes’ interview touches on how Hillary was much more upfront about white supremacy and white privilege... more than a black candidate probably could have gotten away with and a factor in her EC loss.
I’d love to see similar research/discussion on male supremacy, which gets under-discussed as part of the Southern Strategy and was clearly a big driver in internal left-wing differences.
While I’m talking about the Southern Strategy, here’s a great thread on it.
Check out that headline. “Drastic Party Realignment Could Harm Entire System”. Wow. Uh, yeah.
Check out that headline. “Drastic Party Realignment Could Harm Entire System”. Wow. Uh, yeah.
From the article: “There is good reason to believe that such a neat arrangement might drive the nation’s political temperature toward the boiling point and this endanger the whole system of party government.”
