Friday, October 21, 2016

"Trump Is the Conclusion of That"

"So, yes, Trump is the logical conclusion of a lot of things the Republican Party has been doing. Really, I think Nixon, for all his sins, was also the father of a lot of this with the Southern strategy, which was based on, you know, getting whites in the South to shift from the Democratic Party, which they had been in for almost a century, to the Republican Party based on resentment over the gains of the civil rights movement. And that's really planted the seeds for the transformation of the Republican Party into what we see today."

Eric Foner talks on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, and Eddie Glaude.

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