"Republicans used to have some plausible deniability when the left accused them of racism, corruption, privileging the rich, or wanting to criminalize poverty. Ronald Reagan knew not to say in public the explicitly racist things he said to Nixon on the phone. Trump has stripped that veneer and proved every one of those charges not just right but undeniable."
Lili Loofbourow at Slate looks at the current state of the Democratic Party.
Saturday, August 03, 2019
"The Modern GOP Has Made the Left's Case for It"
Labels:
2010s,
class,
environment,
Obama,
political history,
politics,
race and ethnicity,
Reagan,
Trump
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