Ah, so this justifies a foreign policy of bombing and invading as many countries as possible and selling weapons to the Saudis so they can exterminate Yemenis. Because the Holocaust and stuff
They are the biggest victims of interracial violence and police shootings yet perennially play the part of public enemy numero uno 2/
They are the butt of every joke, they are not allowed to celebrate their heroes and symbols and myths, but are contioned to worship the "Other" instead and denigrate and ignore what is theirs 3/
2. It's Mother Jones but this is also a GOP talking point, which includes many pro-Trump pundits. A byproduct of "Trumpism" corrupted Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins is that Trumpism 2020 embraced a version of Democratic Party identity politics
Sure, all politics are tied to identity, but what I mean is that the GOP has connected itself to a specific, toxic variation of identity politics, i.e., "get off the plantation," which makes a kind of religious antiracism a staple of the GOP
People ask why, as a Latino, do I hammer white guilt among liberals and conservatives. Hayes' tweet is illustrative: the modern white psyche conditioned to worship nonwhites in a religious psychosexual ethnomasochism 1/
Our politics, Republican and Democrat, are dominated by the accompanying neurosis and narcissism of whites suffering from what is basically a mental and spiritual illness. Conservatives aren't immune. They think they are, but they are just as bad 2/
It's the reason why conservatives rationalize and justify bringing rappers to the White House, releasing dangerous felons, the Platinum Plan, the American Dream Plan, it's behind the "immigrants do the jobs Americans don't want to do" slogans, it's why conservatives pander 3/
Lindsey Graham is illustrative of the GOP as an institution. Like the GOP, people think Graham is a weakling, a kind of dainty loser blowing in the wind. But Graham is extremely conniving. He is aware of the cartoonish image of himself and uses it to his advantage 1/
So you think you're going to play Graham, you're going to whip Graham/the GOP into shape, but it doesn't work out that way and you ultimately end up getting conned and neutralized 2/
This is the obstacle people who want to reform the GOP will encounter over and over. Trump may have superficially changed the GOP, but its funding structure is the same, it did to him more or less what it did to Reagan. The GOP is like a death trap for populism 3/
Prediction: The GOP is going to use exaggerated and misleading claims about current border security to justify cutting an amnesty deal. "We beat illegal immigration and Latinos voted for Donal Tron, therefore, it's time for bipartisan amnesty."
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 2.0
Part of the problem is the remarkably uncritical Trump base. I'm sorry guys, but we aren't helping the cause by refusing to drop the insane "antiracism" stuff and hammer pandering instead. This is playing into where the GOP wants to go
The issue with Powell was never that fraud didn't occur. Fraud is real. The issue was that Powell's claims are so extraordinary that they would threaten to discredit the case for real fraud if they turned out to be untrue and this ended up a grift 1/
Fraud happened. There is evidence of fraud happening across the country that should be the focus. But by making Powell the center of it all, the case for fraud began to hang on her claims primarily. Then "belief" in Powell became a kind of purity test for everyone 2/
So this is not to say there is some truth to Powell's basic claims, or that fraud did not happen, but that the alarm was always about the case for fraud being entirely associated with one woman's hitherto unproven claims 3/