Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Saying that I 'spend my life obsessed with using the issue of race trying to appoint YOUR thoughts to somebody else's motives. And YOU USE race as a weapon', is unsupportable by the facts.

The vast majority of my posts are not on that subject. But when one is....and in this case they're all the words of a life long GOP strategist....bigots like you react like a scalded cat.

Where Obama was born was NOT a constitutional issue, otherwise it would have been adjudicated, settled, the day he applied for his passport. Birtherism was rank racial bigotry believed and promulgated by complete f'ing morons LIKE Donald F'ing Trump. Period.

Your emboldened quotes were not referred to by Stuart as examples of racism but rather to make the point of just how f'd up the GOP really is.

You can't even effectively cherry pick to make your point.

Here is what effective cherry picking looks like and all I had to do was pick up what was laying ALL over the ground.

"...... Stevens exploded with loathing for the party he once faithfully (and lucratively) served. He rejected the common view that Trump had hijacked the GOP. No, he explained, the triumph of know-nothing Trumpism marked the culmination of an internal conflict that had existed for decades between the party’s “dark side” and its professed ideals.

Even William F. Buckley Jr., often hailed as a grand public intellectual and the founding father of the modern conservative movement, was “a stone-cold racist” in the 1950s, Stevens pointed out. (Buckley at that time considered white people more “advanced” and more fit to govern.)

“A lot of us in the party liked to believe the dark side was a recessive gene, but it’s a dominant theme,” Stevens, a seventh-­generation Mississippian who was named for Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart, told me.

“And it’s all about race. The Republican Party is a white party and there still are more white people than non-white people.” So that is whom the party aims at—even if this will eventually be a losing proposition as the nation’s demographics continue to shift.

Ronald Reagan achieved a landslide victory in 1980 by bagging 56 percent of white voters; 28 years later, John McCain lost with 55 percent of white voters. Perhaps the party’s fixation on white voters can work one more time with Trump in 2020. “But we’re talking about the Confederacy—literally,” Stevens said.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/racism-republican-party-stuart-stevens/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=naytev&utm_medium=social

And Nazi Germany. On his own, with no prompting, Stevens went straight to the Defcon-1 analogy: “I tell my GOP friends, ‘It’s crazy to say it’s 1934 in Germany…when it’s clearly 1936.’” He insisted that the 1930s are important for understanding the current moment.

“When there was rising anti-Semitism, isolationism, and pro-Nazi sentiment, why did the US not become fascist?” Stevens asked. “Because of FDR. Leaders matter, and the GOP has now completely abdicated its role.” Instead, the party has yielded completely to demagoguery and race-baiting to exploit the racism and resentments of certain white voters. Throughout his decades as a Republican, Stevens considered this racist element a bug in the system. He now realizes it has been a feature."