“'The whole secret to politics,' Nixon aide Kevin Phillips, the architect of the 'Southern Strategy,' told author Gary Wills in 1968, is 'who hates who.' But hatred is not merely organic; while it arises on its own, it can also be cultivated and direct...
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“'The whole secret to politics,' Nixon aide Kevin Phillips, the architect of the 'Southern Strategy,' told author Gary Wills in 1968, is 'who hates who.' But hatred is not merely organic; while it arises on its own, it can also be cultivated and directed."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Springfield #SouthernStrategy #PoliticsofHate #racism
/1The New Southern Strategy
Encouraging racial division was the GOP strategy for half a century. Now it's all immigration.
(paulwaldman.substack.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"In his decade as the leader of the Republican Party, Donald Trump has been steadily reshaping the Southern Strategy into something different than it was. It’s still about fear and resentment, but the relative importance of anti-Black resentment and anti-immigrant resentment has flipped. And there’s good reason to believe the new strategy will endure well after Trump departs."
#Trump #JDVance #immigrants #Springfield #SouthernStrategy #PoliticsofHate #racism
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John Autryreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to John Autry last edited by
@JohnAutry I love Mencken's acerbic zingers. That's a great one.