Time now to re-read Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields on the long game the Republican party has played for years now to win voters:
“In its quest to win over white voters in the American South, the GOP played a full house of racial cards, but these were not the only cards they played."
#Republicans #race #gender #SouthernStrategy
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~ Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics (NY: Oxford UP, 2019), p. 125
@wdlindsy gutting public education and epa standards and actual health care leads directly to poor critical thinking to a majority of regular people in those states. Poor critical thinking skills lead to falling for basic fallacies in logic. These policies are pure self interest for politicians there
@XenoDangerEvil Absolutely. You're putting your finger on the heart of the problem.