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Yes that is precisely the exact talking point from the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln. Only it has not been the party of Lincoln since at least the 1960's. I guess you never heard of the Southern Strategy.

Please don't tell me this is a lie or liberal propaganda.

In a study of the 2016 election the authors "found support for Trump “was strongly linked to how Republican voters felt about blacks, immigrants, and Muslims, and to how much discrimination Republican voters believed that whites themselves faced.”"

The problem is how Republicans apparently define racism. As one Trump supporter said, Mr Trump doesn't own a black slave. Or to say it another way, Republicans define racism so narrowly that only the use of the word "N&&&R" qualifies as being racist.

So NO!!!! your belief, and that is all it is, a belief, racism does not exist in the Republican Party, is some delusion you want to believe, unfortunately it is simply not true nor valid. And here where I live, where The Trump Base resides, they are all 100% racists.

Very sad ... and even more sad when party leaders continue to use the phrase "The Party of Lincoln" as if the Base is something other than racist. What do you think all those elected Republicans fear?

But don't take my word for it. Take the word of the KKK or the neo-Nazis. They understand completely what Mr Trump is talking about, and he speaks their language.

The Democratic Party was the party of slavery, secession and segregation, of "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman and the KKK. "Bull" Connor, who turned the dogs loose on black demonstrators in Birmingham, was the Democratic National Committeeman from Alabama.

And Nixon?

In 1956, as vice president, Nixon went to Harlem to declare, "America can't afford the cost of segregation." The following year, Nixon got a personal letter from Dr. King thanking him for helping to persuade the Senate to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Nixon supported the civil rights acts of 1964, 1965 and 1968.

In the 1966 campaign, as related in my new book "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority," out July 8, Nixon blasted Dixiecrats "seeking to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice."

I am now confident that there is no depth that Trump will not plumb in his quest to be the most corrupt President in US (and most of the world's) history. It's like he is trying to push every button he can in the quest for impeachment - emoluments, self-dealing, lying, politicizing foreign policy, giving Putin every advantage he can, betraying every ally - and not just "not hiding it" but shoving it in everyone's face. He is more arrogant and less principled that Andrew Jackson, more corrupt than Harding's entire cabinet, more criminal than Nixon, more racist than Woodrow Wilson or Andrew Johnson, less competent than Polk or Coolidge or Bush Jr. Frankly, there is no aspect of any of the worst, most contemptible White House occupants that Trump has not exceeded by a mile. He is a one-man constitutional crisis.

I could tell you what you think is Nixon's Southern Strategy is a lie but you wouldn't believe me.

basically a segregationist strategy

When Republican Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964, his Southern surrogates played up the fact that he had just voted against the Civil Rights Act. That paid off in the Deep South where he won a handful of states

Republican nominee Richard Nixon reached out to white Southerners by opposing school busing and promising that his administration would not "ram anything down your throats" and would appoint "strict constructionist" Supreme Court justices.

There’s a total fear of what’s called the Southern strategy. Blacks understand that their wellbeing is being sacrificed to political gain. There has to be some moral leadership from the president on the race question, and there just hasn’t been any.

SOUTHERN STRATEGY — we flat out invited the kind of political battle that ultimately erupted when we named a Democrat-turned-Republican conservative from South Carolina. This confirmed the Southern strategy just at a time when it was being nationally debated

If the New Washington liberal crowd could tear themselves away from Watergate ecstasy and the lionizing of Daniel Ellsberg for a little look-see below the Mason-Dixon line, they might glean a useful political insight, namely that the GOP 'Southern Strategy' seems to be rolling along — and rolling up local victories — just as if G. Gordon Liddy had never existed

The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.

So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites

By the ‘70s and into the ‘80s and ‘90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong

I could tell you what you think is Nixon's Southern Strategy is a lie but you wouldn't believe me. And probably won't believe Pat Buchanan either, even though he was there when it happened.

I admit, I find it difficult to resist responding to posts that are informed by ideological purity and a resistance to rational construction, historical facts, and reason. I can get acidic in my derision. It isn't good for conversation, comity or my blood pressure. To that end, I will endeavor to ignore the distractions and refocus on the central themes. I'll try to shorthand dismissal of irrelevancy and falsehood, intentionally asserted or not, unless they are strictly germane.

The topic of this thread is "the impeachment of Donald Trump." I was, initially, resistant to it for pragmatic reasons, as was Nancy Pelosi. But, Trump's increasingly erratic and dangerous behavior has made it a constitutional necessity. As the Syrian betrayal and Doral grift have demonstrated, he can do too much damage too quickly to be ignored. It's now the only responsible course.

I think the Senator lives in Minnesota. A lily white state if there ever was one. They still struggle with racism.

According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Minnesota was:

White: 83.75%
Black or African American: 5.95%
Asian: 4.66%
Two or more races: 2.81%
Other race: 1.74%
Native American: 1.05%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.04%

But I'm sure the Senator has many black friends which is the hallmark of the "I'm not racist" Republican. I'm also sure he has seen Confederate flags plastered on pick up trucks because slavery was cool and coloreds are low class, unintelligent, subhumans who deserve no respect.

Or maybe he doesn't even know a black person and doesn't even begin to understand the plight of all dark skinned Americans and the Republicans lack of concern for anything but the interest of businesses and the very wealthy. Unless those businesses are minority owned,then they are pariahs, much like black men who own weapons or look like they might own weapons, or are playing videogames with their nephew in their own homes as policemen shoot through the windows with no warning. Anybody wanna bet who the cop voted for?

Coulda been either party, right? Riiiiight...LOLs