re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter

They deliberately and maliciously inflamed the fears — as well as manufacturing additional fears for having a black man in the White House. The American right has allied itself with the worst of racism — and that has been true since the 1950’s and the heyday of William Buckley.

Well, no. Republicans and Democrats both passed the Civil Rights Act, and both had cohorts of bigots opposing them (more Democrats, though). They also rejected Goldwater pretty soundly. It was 1970 and later that the Southern Strategy and beyond turned them into a nest of racists and nativists.