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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"You don't want someone who's soft on crime."
No, Mr. Trump, you want someone who commits them.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,734 posts)Satch59
(1,353 posts)He needs to be taken down on SO many levels...
Every woman in AL should voice their disgust and vote for Jones...
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)I O W, soft on minorities. More crudely, and more true to Atwater's original language, " an n***** lover"
Our racist president
https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/
'By 1968 you cant say n wordthat hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states rights, and all that stuff, and youre getting so abstract. Now, youre talking about cutting taxes, and all these things youre talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.
We want to cut this, is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than N word.
more about the Southern Strategy and Lee Atwater's invention of dog whistle politics at the link.