Not every Republican is racist, but every racist that I personally know votes Republican.
This sums up precisely the relationship between the Republican Party, racism and its base.
When did this sordid strategy start?
The rot started during Nixon’s Southern Strategy and Agnew’s Creative Polarization, when some high-ranking Republicans began using racism as a tool. During the Reagan Administration , most Republicans were using bigotry as a tool. Now, bigotry is using Republicans as tools…
Let us not forget the late Lee Atwater’s role in all of this.
That pretty much sums up the sleazy history of the transformation of the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Willie Horton.
Yuck.
