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If you understand that America is a nation governed by its minority party, the Republican Party, which stacks courts to ensure voter suppression and systemically uses disinformation to mislead voters and now uses immigration policy to keep America white and Republican, you get it
1/ Somewhere along the line, Republicans saw the same polls everyone else did, which confirmed that when asked about policy preferences a majority of Americans pick Democratic policies, and instead of changing their philosophy the GOP decided to eliminate their opponents' voters
2/ Because keeping America's *electorate* as white as possible benefits Republicans, GOP voters have been given a license to support all sorts of racist policies on the grounds that not supporting them would be detrimental to their party (which they belong to because of tax cuts)
3/ So here I am, telling GOP voters the MAGICAL SECRET to not being called a racist: adjudicate your support for a policy not based on whether it helps/harms your selfish interest in tax cuts (and if you're middle class Dems will cut your taxes, anyway) but on whether it's racist
4/ If you're a Republican voter, your leaders are encouraging you to support overtly racist public policy on the grounds that not supporting it would cause the GOP, which again is the nation's *minority party*, to be destroyed, which (they say) means you won't get your tax cuts
5/ The thing is, Democrats are as inclined to cut taxes on folks making less than $250K/year as Republicans are, maybe not quite as deep a cut but still a significant one, so if you're a Republican making under $250K you have an opportunity to not be racist and still get tax cuts
6/ Other Republicans have become so hostile to the sliver of the Democratic population that is (in their view) "politically correct" that they have begun to hate Democratic voters in a way that's implicitly racist (because it's pro-white) without thinking of themselves as racist
7/ D.C. Republicans and US media culture have so wildly overstated the prevalence of the cultural views, tendencies, and behaviors of the small sliver of the Democratic Party that is (in GOP parlance) "politically correct" that it fuels Republican support for racist public policy
8/ For instance, if you've ever shopped at a Whole Foods in, say, New Hampshire, you know that its patrons are *regular people who act like regular people and have diverse political views*. Now here's Sebastian Maniscalco, playing to his GOP consumer base:
9/ It's an amazing racket: Maniscalco makes an enormous amount of money, Republican audiences love it, and it produces an enormous, unfounded hatred for Democrats while a) not being based in reality whatsoever and b) not ostensibly being about promoting hatred, even though it is.
10/ So you're a racist if the agenda you support—even to save your failing party—puts predominantly nonwhite people in jail, keeps predominantly nonwhite people from immigrating, prevents predominantly nonwhite people from voting, or denies aid to places nonwhites predominate.
PS/ I find Maniscalco funny sometimes, I agree that much of his humor is self-deprecating, and I was saying that some of it promotes unreasonable fear/dislike of young, urban-dwelling white leftists (I was *not* calling his comedy racist). Just wanted to clarify all of that ASAP.
