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So @TheHebrewsauru1 linked a video in which Ben Shapiro explains why the party switch or southern strategy never happened. @_BarringtonII originally asked why the @GOP is seen as the racist party and not the @DNC
I posit the answer is, like many other answers, nuanced
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I posit the answer is, like many other answers, nuanced
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I linked this infamous recording of Lee Atwater describing in shocking language the idea behind what is commonly referred to as the southern strategy.
In it he discusses speaking "abstractly" about the race issue vs speaking, well, concretely
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In it he discusses speaking "abstractly" about the race issue vs speaking, well, concretely
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Shapiro is partly right but misses a lot and gets several parts dead wrong. Ben says Wallace ran as a dem. Wallace ran in 1968 in the American Independent Party precisely because dems were leaving his ilk behind
They had not shed their old skin yet but were evolving
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They had not shed their old skin yet but were evolving
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Let's focus on racist democrats. Ben said only one dixiecrat left the dems to go to the GOP, Thurmond, when there were many more. Shapiro also mentioned D'souza's claims about party switch
This thread handles those claims better than I ever could.
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1013981446615322624?s=20
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This thread handles those claims better than I ever could.
https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1013981446615322624?s=20
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Robert Byrd, the most infamous KKK democrat never switched parties. He always had a home in the DNC. He oppose forced bussing with a bill sponsored by our new commander in chief Biden because Joe had to appease white "liberal" northerners
Which brings me to my overall point
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Which brings me to my overall point
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The southern wolf vs the northern fox. Liberals have an ugly history of saying the right things and not ponying up.
Malcolm X, puts it better than I could.
Wolves were being hunted out of polite society but foxes, they can sneak. They learned.
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Malcolm X, puts it better than I could.
Wolves were being hunted out of polite society but foxes, they can sneak. They learned.
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Foxes learned the lesson Atwater knew. Be abstract, be sneaky with your language. We can't talk about bussing anymore. Let's talk entitlements, welfare queens, taxes
The southern wolf becomes the northern fox. The fox becomes ... something else. Something even more clever
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The southern wolf becomes the northern fox. The fox becomes ... something else. Something even more clever
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A pig. Fat corporate democrats and republicans sing the siren songs of kayfabe infighting while fleecing the sheeple of our nation.
They're conning us. Keep asking questions. We are the ones who'll save us. Fight the power!!
#WeAreTheCavalry
#NotLeftNotRightForward
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They're conning us. Keep asking questions. We are the ones who'll save us. Fight the power!!
#WeAreTheCavalry
#NotLeftNotRightForward
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