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JoinSign inShare this postYes, The GOP Has A Racism Problemmorningshots.thebulwark.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailFeb 26, 2021Share this postYes, The GOP Has A Racism Problemmorningshots.thebulwark.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailI’m tempted to say that that the GOP civil war ended Thursday night not with a bang, but with a whimper. But, seriously, even a whimper puts up more of a fight than this. ICYMI, the other day, Liz Cheney declared that “It’s very important, especially for us as Republicans, to make clear that we aren’t the party of white supremacy.”Of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cheney added: “You certainly saw antisemitism. You saw the symbols of Holocaust denial. … You saw a Confederate flag being carried through the rotunda. We, as Republicans in particular, have a duty and an obligation to stand against that, to stand against insurrection.” Apparently, the folks at The Federalist felt seen. Umbrage was taken. Dudgeons were high. personally insulting. You called me a white supremacist. You called tens of millions of Trump voters white supremacists. Your lies about us will not go unchallenged, and neither will your political ambitions. Let’s leave the hyper defensiveness aside for a moment. Marcus’s argument is both lazy and in bad faith. Cheney was not calling millions of Trump voters racists — she was calling the actual racists… racist. She was calling people wearing “Camp Auschwitz” t-shirts anti-Semitic, because they were… anti-Semitic. not.Until five minutes ago, Republican leaders understood the need to draw those bright lines. "A few isolated groups in the back order of American life still hold perverted notions of what America is all about," Reagan said while addressing the NAACP convention in Denver.To those individuals who persist in such hateful behavior … you are the ones who are out of step with our society, you are the ones who willfully violate the meaning of the dream that is America, and this country … will not stand for your conduct."In 1996, Bob Dole, in his nomination acceptance speech had a similar declaration:"If there is anyone who has mistakenly attached themselves to our party in the belief that we're not open to citizens of every race and religion, then let me remind you, tonight this hall belongs to the party of Lincoln and the exits, which are clearly marked, are for you to walk out of as I stand this ground without compromise.”And here is George W. Bush in 2000:"But in the Age of Trump, those comments are now treated like heresy. How telling is that?American Greatness, The author, Alexander Zubatov, opens with a dystopian scene of New York City. It is evening, very late evening. I am walking in the remains of what once was New York City. Broken trash bags and discarded clothing, furniture and debris line the sidewalks, spilling out onto the streets, the bags’ black plastic jerking and lurching as though some near-suffocated life within were struggling to break free of confinement.people—a teetering, drooling zombie barely maintaining the accustomed vertical orientation of humanity “I navigate around one such specimen transecting the middle of the sidewalk, with the telltale final bottle capping off its drunken stupor still clasped in its gnarled fingers.” American Greatness I refuse to humanize those who cannot be bothered to lift a finger to humanize themselves. The mentally ill need our care. The rest need the whip. In the long run, all of us—they most of all—will be thankful for it.&nbsp; “The rest need the whip.” This is his vision of America today:This is what this entire city, this nation, has become: a shrinking reserve of law-abiding citizens shouldering every burden for a growing mass of fat, lazy leeches, slugs, thugs, gangbangers, rule-breakers, whiners, and perpetual ne’er-do-wells comically beatified **StormfrontBut this racist rant about human scum and whips appears in a publication whose contributors include such right-wing luminaries as Victor David Hanson, Roger Kimball, Conrad Black, Salena Zito, Josh Hammer (who is also Newsweek’s opinion editor), Michael Anton, Ned Ryun, and Dennis Prager.In other words, it is smack in the middle of the Trumpian Right.American GreatnessIt was also raw, undiluted racism:**Exit take: Yes, the right has a white supremacy problem. But there are few signs that it will take Cheney’s warning seriously.Here comes CPAC.One panel will discuss whether tech companies are “colluding to deprive us of our humanity.” One speech will explore what to do when a social media network “de-platforms” a conservative by deleting his account. And seven main-stage panels or speeches will litigate the 2020 election, with panelists who mostly — and incorrectly — argue that Donald Trump won.The Conservative Political Action Conference, which begins this week, has evolved from a fractious meeting of Republicans and libertarians into a celebration of the 45th president and the airing of his grievances.If Roy’s views are completely and totally subject to the whims of Republican base voters, that would be one thing. But this man is such a pusillanimous poltroon that he’s going all the way to demand that others be punished for sticking with the truth. He doesn’t even have the common decency to slink quietly into a corner and stroke mUh pRinCiPles while letting some other red hat do the dirty work of going after Cheney.Nope, in order to prove to the mob that he is at their beck and call, Roy now demands that his “friend” take the fall for saying something that they agreed on just six weeks ago.Pathetic.**Worshipping the golden calf.Culture war update. Aged badly.Like this postShare this postYes, The GOP Has A Racism Problemmorningshots.thebulwark.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailNo posts© 2022 The Bulwark ∙ ∙ &nbsp;is the home for great writingThis site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please or unblock scripts

JoinSign inShare this postYes, The GOP Has A Racism Problemmorningshots.thebulwark.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailFeb 26, 2021Share this postYes, The GOP Has A Racism Problemmorningshots.thebulwark.comCopy linkTwitterFacebookEmailI’m tempted to say that that the GOP civil war ended Thursday night not with a bang, but with a whimper. But, seriously, even a whimper puts up more of a fight than this. ICYMI, the other day, Liz Cheney declared that “It’s very important, especially for us as Republicans, to make clear that we aren’t the party of white supremacy.”Of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S....

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