re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

And what’s more remarkable about that piece in The Atlantic was as noted by a commentator to the original tweet, the GOP the same year also had civil rights language in their own platform. Both parties at the time we pretty much on the same page.

Then the GOP started pandering to racists under Goldwater, Nixon, and Reagan to gain a block of votes both parties had abandoned.

It’s astonishing that this historical analysis overlooks the fact that the GOP platform that same year also advocated strongly for civil rights. It’s not like this was an extreme position at the time. pic.twitter.com/3X7GMTOJPf

— Mike Shaw (@whitmanesque) April 8, 2018