A Federalist piece argues that the GOP “needs to do everything it can to reach out to the communities that have been made worse by failed economic policies & government corruption” in a both sides piece saying but city voters (black) should give conservativism a try ... The idea that black voters haven’t (and don’t) consider conservative policies displays a misunderstanding of black communities and a limited knowledge of history. There are far more black conservative voters than many non-black people realize fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-d…

Mike Pence: “Throughout most of American history, it's been pretty easy to call yourself Christian. It didn’t even occur to people that you might be shunned or ridiculed for defending the teachings of the Bible. But things are different now.”

usatoday.com/story/news/pol… The Evangelical Persecution Complex: The theological and cultural roots of a damaging attitude in the Christian community theatlantic.com/national/archi…

The latest from “if your Christianity does not look like my Trump-supporting Christianity, then it’s not even Christianity at all” ... Thinking that Buttigieg’s comments about faith are centered on winning Trump’s most supportive white evangelicals appears to be a fundamental understanding of so many things about faith, politics and identity politics.

One of the reasons our society struggles to dismantle white supremacy is because it too often is treated as irresponsible, childish “boys will be boys” behavior opposed to the deadly, dangerous worldview that it actually is.

https://twitter.com/byrontau/status/1086685218076090368

My 65-year-old mother, who helped integrate her high school in North Carolina, still to this day will not go to a class reunion because of the trauma she experienced being a black female teenager in Southern public schools in the 1960s.

"Simply, Americans miss Bush because we miss the WASPs — because we feel, at some level, that their more meritocratic and diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well." - Ross Douthat

nyti.ms/2DZufmq Most days, I consume journalists and pundits talking about Americans and I think:

"they aren't talking about people like me."

But some days, that truth is more clear than other days.

Today is one of those days.

Has been difficult finding a black person in Alabama who does not know that there’s an election today. One Birmingham native told me: “One thing I know for sure about black people in AL is that they always know what’s going on — there’s not much else but politics and football.” Also worth noting that there seems to be a bit of a stigma against being a black person who is able to vote yet chooses not to. This is a state populated with people who still remember people like Rep. John Lewis being beat in Selma for fighting for the right for blacks to vote.