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Gutting Out the Vote 0
Jamelle Bouie is less than optimistic.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I suspect that this symbolism was not intentional.
Cancel Culture, Republican Style 0
The slaveholders lost the war, but won the peace, and they are determined not to let go.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Santayana Redux Dept. 0
George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
I herewith propose the Hawley corollary:
Those who deny history desire to repeal it.
Cancel Culture, Unreconstructed Style 0
As Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out (see below), until white America is willing to confront its past, it will continue to deny its present.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron points out how thoroughly Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Heaven forbid that students should ever be taught the truth about ye olde south.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One of Donald Trump’s most poisonous legacies was to give, by his example, racists permission to be racist in public in a manner not seen since the days of George Wallace and of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy.” Thom and Joe Madison discuss how to deal with this.