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"None of this precludes the existence of non-racist conservatives, to be sure. It just makes them some of the least influential people in their movement." - @zakcheneyrice nymag.com/intelligencer/…
@zakcheneyrice "they made clear that their support for the president was not in spite of his inflammatory rhetoric, but because his chosen targets often match their own....Republican infrastructure has been remade to reflect that marriage." - @AsteadWesley nytimes.com/2019/09/10/us/…
@zakcheneyrice @AsteadWesley the reason Trump was able to take the long golden escalator ride through the institutions of the Right is because he was eager to say outright what a generation of operatives and politicians talked around.
@zakcheneyrice @AsteadWesley the best metaphor i've come up with for this is the Broccoli and Cheese theory. 
anyway, it's admirable that Broccoli-Party conservatives are trying to point out how unhealthy all that Cheese is, but i think @zakcheneyrice is correct that the market for whatever else they have to offer is not especially big.
