“Cultural fascism has arrived”: How the GOP blew its outreach to racial minorities

Incredibly the Republican Party has gone backward on race since George W. Bush. Here's what that means electorally

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Another CPAC came to an end this weekend. The hungover millennials are back to campus by now, with their backpacks full of Rand Paul buttons, and the oldsters are counting their profits. The consensus in the press is that this year’s extravaganza was a more sedate affair than usual, with the “Happiness is Hillary Clinton’s face on a milk carton” T-shirts relegated to the dustiest corners of the hall. Sure there was “Duck Dynasty’s” Phil Robertson declaring that STDs are the “revenge of the hippies,” which is kind of funny coming from a whole family that looks like it could easily have been rolling around in the mud on Yazgur’s Farm. And Brent Bozell issued a predictably turgid assessment of the threat America faces from the left:

“Tyranny is knocking at our door,” he warned, before declaring that the left “will do anything, using any means at their disposal, legal or otherwise” to strip conservatives of their freedom of speech and saying that the government isn’t “all that different from the East German Stasi.”

“Cultural fascism has arrived in America,” Bozell said. “Let us understand this soberly and unequivocally”

Very sober of him, indeed. But in a sharp break from the past, Ann Coulter was not a featured speaker this year, so the public was deprived of a peek into the darkest recesses of the conservative id. (In fact, there is no record of even one attendee using the term “raghead” this year.)

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