Ever since the republicans began openly courting racists following Nixon's Southern Strategy and the playbook Reagan made from it, suffice to say the idea of being a black republican voter in the south has been utterly absurd for a half century or so.
To make up for it, the Democrats have also been openly courting racists for as long as I can remember. The Democrats want to take voters from the far right, not from the left. And, despite that being repeatedly shown to be a losing strategy, they've doubled down on it.
Democrats back in the days of Lincoln were known proudly as the party of racists, they were literally open and proud about fighting against enfranchising former slaves.
Then reconstruction was ended by a weak candidate making a bargain to get support for the electoral win. Later republicans and democrats went through various periods where they were both fighting in different ways to broadly improve the situation for everyone until finally civil rights came up as a winning issue for democrats and in response to the impetus from the southern strategy you got reagan piling christian rightwingers on top of a group frightened by demographic change.
We'll be better off once the diehard republican base of old white dudes thins out and they're left trying to get undereducated whites to vote alongside the biblethumpers against what I'm going to term "the brown wave" as we become a true majority-minority nation.
Got more covid-19 cases showing up, several in government, Trump is still saying it's gonna go away, still seems to prefer no testing and having people not report negative results for some reason. Acting like lack of word about cases is the same as lack of cases.
He's gonna be responsible for thousands of deaths by the end of the month I fear.
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