American politics didn’t used to be the polarized team sport it is now.
We’re seeing the ultimate culmination of the Southern Strategy: Get with the preachers who run those “god says hate the blacks” churches that the South is full of, pay them to say “God says vote the Republicans in so we can use the government to take it out on the blacks.” Fast forward 60 years, and take a look around.
American politics didn’t used to be the polarized team sport it is now.
We’re seeing the ultimate culmination of the Southern Strategy: Get with the preachers who run those “god says hate the blacks” churches that the South is full of, pay them to say “God says vote the Republicans in so we can use the government to take it out on the blacks.” Fast forward 60 years, and take a look around.
It was certainly that, but people kept the nasty stuff quiet and pretended to be dignified. Now nobody hides that nonsense.