How the right lost its mind, sold its soul and embraced Donald Trump

This freaking guy, though i agree with most of what he says, refuses to acknowledge how the racial component to Republican policy-making has always been there, and that it's not just in liberals' heads. Speaking as though it's all the liberals' faults for making those poor sensitive Republicans out to be talking in racist dogwhistles when they say things like this:

You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

-Lee Atwater, former Republican Party Strategist

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