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Are Republicans racist? Or course they are, especially those who support the most-racist President in history that voters rejected in 2020.

By DOUG THOMPSON
March 7, 2022

American Vice President Kamala Harris marched with civil rights leaders and proud citizens of Selma, Ala. Sunday to remember a tragic, horrible day in this nation’s racist history.

That day, more than 50 years ago, and while it is historic that a woman of color is part of the presidency and a mixed-race man represented the United States for eight years in this century, the racism remains in a bitterly-divided land called America.

“Today, we stand on this bridge at a different time,” Harris said in a speech before the gathered crowd. “We again, however, find ourselves caught in between. Between injustice and justice. Between disappointment and determination. Still in a fight to form a more perfect union. And nowhere is that more clear than when it comes to the ongoing fight to secure the freedom to vote.”

While Harris marched in Selma, President Joe Biden notes that the progress of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that came out of the aftermath of Selma has been weakened “by the brute force” of racists and bigots in Congress and state legislatures and “insidious court decisions.”

“In Selma, the blood of John Lewis and so many other courageous Americans sanctified a noble struggle. We are determined to honor that legacy by passing legislation to protect the right to vote and uphold the integrity of our elections,” Biden said in a statement.

Biden’s party has been trying to update the landmark law with stronger measures to make it more convenient to vote, but such attempts were stonewalled by the hardcore racists who dominate the GOP.

Working in Washington for 23 years, I saw the racist undercurrent that has been controlling the Republican Party for the too-long bubble to the surface in 1994 when they recaptured leadership of Congress. Legislation limiting the progress of civil rights, along with other racist screeds, became laws of the land.

When Barack Obama was elected president, we saw Republicans eagerly embrace the white supremacy and racism of the Tea Party extremists and the rise of illegal militias and hate groups that included GOP members of Congress.

The election of Donald Trump, often identified as an “American example of Hitler” provided America with a president who embraced those who wanted minorities from our shores. Hate crimes based on social and religious discrimination rose to record levels while the Trump-controlled Justice Department looked the other way.

Trump convinced brain-dead Republicans that they were victims of attempts to drive the “white race into a minority.”

“The message,” Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher told CNN, “is to pour as much gasoline on the fire of White grievance and victimhood as possible to energize and mobilize their vote.”

The news network concludes:

• Trump’s rise has been both cause and effect of that swelling grievance. The so-called “Southern strategy,” from which Republicans harvested support from racial conservatives after Democrats nationally embraced the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, proved a formative event in the party’s evolution.
  
  Trump cast restraint aside, opening his winning 2016 presidential campaign by smearing Mexican immigrants as criminals. He kept it up through his losing 2020 contest, when he warned that fair housing laws would destroy suburban neighborhoods, blasted the removal of Confederate symbols and assailed racial justice protesters in the wake of George Floyd’s murder.
  
  The GOP rank and file has followed suit. With the Census Bureau projecting that demographic change will make America a majority-minority nation within a generation, most White Republicans now claim the status of victim.

What Republican racism did was turn America itself into a racist nation with decreasing hope that it can ever be salvaged.

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These very same groups, including a future POTUS, demanded to see the birth certificate of Barack Obama - a request that had never been asked of a sitting president, prior.

Now, Fox News' resident white nationalist and pro-Putin fan, Tucker Carlson, is demanding that the LSAT scores of ol' Joe's SCOTUS nominee. THAT has never been requested of a SCOTUS nominee.

What is it about Barack Obama and Ketanji Jackson that Republicans don't like? Any ideas?

There is a hard core part of the Republican party that is dedicated to a single task. Trash the Democrats as they are evil bad people trying to destroy the United States of America. As long as they are there the current congressional mess will continue. Everybody knows this and everybody, seemingly, is dedicated to deal with and talk about this group of hard core lunes which seem to have taken over the Republican party.

With the above in mind I wonder why everybody is so obsessed with these folks. We all know who they are and what they are. I am not completely sure giving them the time of day is a real good thing to do. Its not gonna change their minds and it becomes a kindofa "preaching to the choir" sort of thing.

Its really kinda interesting. I think that when they get lambasted by the other side they behave and talk as if they have just had their back scratched a bit and they loved it. Their only real response is to almost reply to what, in other instants, might be considered an attack or name calling but not them. They actually seem to love the attention.

I wonder what would happen if they were simply ignored.

There's a hardcore part of the Democratic party dedicated to that single task as well. For the same reasons.

Who the feck is Tucker Carlson and why should anyone give a rat's ass what he demands?

Obvs you're not familiar with the #1 "News" ( ) show on cable. Tuck gets lots of eyeballs in the evening.

Stephanie Ruhle
@SRuhle
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Next phase to watch from Republicans:
- many pushed for russian oil ban. Will they work with WH to find way to pump more fast and ease economic burden on consumers? OR cheer on higher prices / blaming Biden for inflation?

https://twitter.com/SRuhle/status/1501241778778906625

Yes.
"Turn the United States into a new Russia"

All of them Katie

You are, absolutely, right! I should have said it! Thank you! (always seems to take two to tango)

I also think that both parties are losing membership is exactly because both sides refuse to give an inch because each is absolutely sure they are right. Its actually very strange. In India they have a solution. When their government gets in the situation we have, right now (neither side will move and inch and nothing is happening) the Indians (dot) surround the building that holds those who are stuck and nobody gets in or out until there is a solution.

I should add that I saw it happen once but its been a very long time and I'm no longer sure it still works but, I think, if you locked the doors to the congress and forced them to talk and do their jobs that might work. Nothing else has.