Walking into the trap

Ah, yes, desperate measures include attempting to fire up the coalition that helped get you elected in the first place.

Once more - this is fear on the part of the Republican Party, which knows that the Angry White Male vote, upon which they have staked so much for so long, is seeing its demographic majority erode. “Playing the race card” thus is destined to become more and more effective as an electoral strategy. Republicans could invalidate this strategy by not, you know, doing things like passing the Arizona legislation.

But they can’t help themselves. They walk right into the trap, and can be counted on to do so, every single time.