That time has finally come. With the Grand Ole Party finally embracing Dred Scott, they have now literally defecated on the graves of Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, and James Ingersoll.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/dred-scott-republicans.html
How did this happen? It's been a long time in coming. Bruce Bartlett wrote a book back in 2007 on the history of race in the two parties.
http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Race-Democratic-Partys-Buried-ebook/dp/B00FOBHV8E/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1439898842&sr=8-4&keywords=bruce+bartlett
The book focuses on the history of the Democratic party's racism. It's a very interesting book historically and he's not wrong about the Democrats historically though I think it's a stretch to say the Democrats are still wrong on race.
With LBJ and the passage of the Voting Rights Act the Democrats redeemed themselves and the GOP's subsequent use of the Southern Strategy has sullied their own anti-slavery, pro-union legacy.
As Bartlett documented right through till the VRA the GOP had supported the idea and while in the minority a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the VRA.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78
Only two Republicans voted no to 16 Democrats-but those Democrats were a different animal as they all came from the South. Indeed, the tricky thing about the history of the Democratic party is that there never was a Democratic party throughout most of US history but about three different parties.
You had the northern liberals, the southern Democrats and the Democratic city machines that served immigrant communities. The Democrats just had a blind spot on race because of the southern Dems who they needed to keep their coalition together.
It's amazing that it stayed together as long as it did when you realize how disparate these different elements were.
Let's be clear-the GOP had backslid from it's anti-racist past for years by the passing of the VRA. Historically blacks were Republicans thanks to Lincoln but with the New Deal this begun to change. It was only with the VRA that the Dems gained 90% of the black vote in perpetuity.
The GOP then made the fateful decision to do the Southern Strategy and have never moved beyond this till the present day.
It should be understood that the shocking anti-immigration stand of Trump is logical from an electoral standpoint-obviously it's very different from a moral standpoint.
If you really wanted to field a winning ticket a very good way would be this 'moderate' platform.
1. Trump's anti-immigration plan.
2. Single payer
3. Gutting food stamps
4. The extreme 'autarky-as the economists call it-of Trump's' global economics. Economic nationalism is a real vote-getter.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/yes-donald-trump-is-moderate-candidate.html
That is the kind of Right wing populist ticket that could get a lot of support not just from the Republican party either.
So the GOP represents the political views of sizable parts of the country. The country is very divided.
I agree with Bartlett. Trump is exactly what the GOP needs. He is their Id.
https://twitter.com/brucebartlett
"To expect the Donald to possess a coherent political position, or even an intelligible stump speech is to miss the point of who he truly is in American political culture and to most definitely miss the true source of his appeal. Trump is finding success because he expresses what the other candidates not just won’t, but cannot—the dark, twisted and unacceptable elements of right wing political discourse that can, in the mainstream, no longer be said. The Donald resonates because he makes explicit what the ego of the Republican Party has left implicit – the racism, misogyny, and capitalist priapism that has been rendered unacceptable in the discourse of American democracy."
http://daily.jstor.org/donald-trump-the-id-of-republican-politics/
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/dred-scott-republicans.html
How did this happen? It's been a long time in coming. Bruce Bartlett wrote a book back in 2007 on the history of race in the two parties.
http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Race-Democratic-Partys-Buried-ebook/dp/B00FOBHV8E/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1439898842&sr=8-4&keywords=bruce+bartlett
The book focuses on the history of the Democratic party's racism. It's a very interesting book historically and he's not wrong about the Democrats historically though I think it's a stretch to say the Democrats are still wrong on race.
With LBJ and the passage of the Voting Rights Act the Democrats redeemed themselves and the GOP's subsequent use of the Southern Strategy has sullied their own anti-slavery, pro-union legacy.
As Bartlett documented right through till the VRA the GOP had supported the idea and while in the minority a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the VRA.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78
Only two Republicans voted no to 16 Democrats-but those Democrats were a different animal as they all came from the South. Indeed, the tricky thing about the history of the Democratic party is that there never was a Democratic party throughout most of US history but about three different parties.
You had the northern liberals, the southern Democrats and the Democratic city machines that served immigrant communities. The Democrats just had a blind spot on race because of the southern Dems who they needed to keep their coalition together.
It's amazing that it stayed together as long as it did when you realize how disparate these different elements were.
Let's be clear-the GOP had backslid from it's anti-racist past for years by the passing of the VRA. Historically blacks were Republicans thanks to Lincoln but with the New Deal this begun to change. It was only with the VRA that the Dems gained 90% of the black vote in perpetuity.
The GOP then made the fateful decision to do the Southern Strategy and have never moved beyond this till the present day.
It should be understood that the shocking anti-immigration stand of Trump is logical from an electoral standpoint-obviously it's very different from a moral standpoint.
If you really wanted to field a winning ticket a very good way would be this 'moderate' platform.
1. Trump's anti-immigration plan.
2. Single payer
3. Gutting food stamps
4. The extreme 'autarky-as the economists call it-of Trump's' global economics. Economic nationalism is a real vote-getter.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/yes-donald-trump-is-moderate-candidate.html
That is the kind of Right wing populist ticket that could get a lot of support not just from the Republican party either.
So the GOP represents the political views of sizable parts of the country. The country is very divided.
I agree with Bartlett. Trump is exactly what the GOP needs. He is their Id.
https://twitter.com/brucebartlett
"To expect the Donald to possess a coherent political position, or even an intelligible stump speech is to miss the point of who he truly is in American political culture and to most definitely miss the true source of his appeal. Trump is finding success because he expresses what the other candidates not just won’t, but cannot—the dark, twisted and unacceptable elements of right wing political discourse that can, in the mainstream, no longer be said. The Donald resonates because he makes explicit what the ego of the Republican Party has left implicit – the racism, misogyny, and capitalist priapism that has been rendered unacceptable in the discourse of American democracy."
http://daily.jstor.org/donald-trump-the-id-of-republican-politics/
Ok this was just our first session folks. You know how psychoanalysts are-they don't' want to solve your problems on the first day, they want to keep you coming and coming.
And the GOP has problems so deep it's going to take much longer than usual.
In our next session we may go back to an interesting moment in GOP history-the 1968 elections when William F. Buckley interviewed George Wallace-who is a an earlier version of Trump. He like Trump was a Right wing populist who combined some extreme ideas of both the Left and the Right.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-would-wfb-do-1439829864
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