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Jack Henneman's avatar

At the risk of overstating it, the contempt of Democrats for contemporary derivatives of the "Southern Strategy" is such that many left progressives have rolled an obscure academic meaning of "whiteness" into their quotidian political rhetoric. It is not at all clear that this is working out for them politically, and I predict a shift away from it, although I also think that shift has been deferred by the persistence of Trump as a factor in national politics.

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Charles Wukasch's avatar

"Richard Nixon saw the wave forming and positioned himself to catch a ride." As a retired professor of English, I'm qualified to say that Brands has a way with language which makes his books and essays fun to read. Maybe in a previous reincarnation LOL, he was an English professor and then later became a history prof.

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