re: #106 Citizen K

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It’s easy to say that Bush, his Administration, and the GOP at the time didn’t believe a whit of this shit, and you’d be right to say that. But they at the very least paid lip service to that kind of shit. Today’s GOP doesn’t even care about keeping up appearances. They can take the mask off, put on the white hood openly, and flaunt their disdain and hate for the brown folks and immigrants in general, and get away with it because of how debased the entire discourse is, helped along by hyper-credulous media giving the GOP every benefit of the doubt ever.

I think Bush believed it. It’s why he supported immigration reform. And I think there was, at the time, a critical mass of Republicans who believed it as well. But in the subsequent two decades, many were chased out of the party or left of their own volition.

I was much more likely to vote for Republicans back then; today, there’s just no way I could justify it.