Whaaaa? No way.
I expect to see some of this Republican elitism in the FL gov race. DeSantis went to Harvard and Yale and Gillum went to FAMU.
Whaaaa? No way.
I expect to see some of this Republican elitism in the FL gov race. DeSantis went to Harvard and Yale and Gillum went to FAMU.
I'm not that up on FL politics. But I've read that Nelson has a Latino problem, and Scott has been courting arrivals from Puerto Rico. I've been viewing that race as the least likely Dem win of the senate toss-ups (below TN, MO, AZ and NV). Do you think this governor's race will have any up ballot effect on the senate race?
I definitely expect rubes to more associate with the local FAMU.
I’m going to go with Nazis.
I’m going to go with Nazis.
American conservatives are out of ideas.
To the extent that Alberta’s piece offers a compelling answer to this question, it is an entirely inadvertent one: Namely, that some putatively neutral reporters are happy to pretend that the source of the GOP’s intellectual bankruptcy is a mystery — and that the party is not transparently beholden to reactionary plutocrats whose idea of a “21st century” problem is the possibility that the estate tax will outlive them.
The Republican Party’s largest shareholders don’t want novel answers to public problems — they want to maximize the returns on their political investments. This leaves the GOP incapable of offering voters credible solutions to contemporary challenges, and thus, requires them to lean on “visceral issues” (a.k.a. white racial panic) to retain and mobilize a mass base. And you don’t need policy wonks to make aging white people feel aggrieved and alienated by intimations of demographic change — racist reality stars are more than capable of fulfilling that function.
Of course, the Trumpist solution creates its own problems, not least, that it renders the hideous reality of modern conservatism too conspicuous for many a “college-educated white” to ignore. Fortunately for Republicans, there are plenty of reporters who will gladly help them obscure that reality, by pretending that the Grand Old Party has no sickness that a fresh-faced thought-leader with rolled-up sleeves, nifty charts — and a talent for feigning concern for the poor while plotting their immiseration — can’t cure.
you mean to tell me Trump doesn't love having to fly to bumfuck Indiana, Iowa or Idaho to find a big enough crowd to shout at?