The New GOP: Boogle, Gang, or Pack of Slick Racist PR Weasels All Terms Apply

Architect of GOP Southern Strategy & Original 

Dirty Trickster

Historical notes:

Introduction: In 1981, Lee Atwater, the now-deceased political campaign architect who refined the Southern Strategy (his audio interview also at this site) for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, described the Republican party’s winning template this way in his own words, not mine:

You start out in 1954 by saying: “N*gg*r, N*gg*r, N*gg*r.” And, by 1968, you can’t say “n*gg*r” — that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites. ... “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gg*r, N*gg*r.”

Not only did the pro-segregation, anti-black Southerners switch sides, but they brought their political ideology with them. The Democratic Party is now the progressive party that welcomes immigrants and the Republican Party has become the party of small government, law and order and conservatism. In 2016, 73% of white voters in the South voted Republican.

It is now the party of the alt-right: the party of the Willie Horton ads; and birtherism. It is also now the party of Donald J. Trump with his: “Muslim ban, the border wall, David Duke, and all the other white supremacists” who ran for election on the Republican ticket in the 2008 midterm elections.

Greater in-depth analysis of this same topic and impact on the present-day GOP can be seen here article in 2018 (from Vox.com) by former longtime GOP conservative writer, Max Boot.

Where the GOP stands today (more or less):

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My 2 cents: One hates to use and throw around the word “racist and racism.” But, it real and seems to be stronger since the election of Donald J. Trump – deny as his staunch supporters do practically 24/7. 

But the path he has traveled is entire adult life and now more so since he became president and actually influences policy now.

There is no denying the facts and Trump denials otherwise, he has strong anti-immigrant sentiments and has surrounded himself with like-minded racist-leaning people, e.g., Stephen Miller now Trump’s #1 White House senior adviser.

Abe Lincoln and other Republicans many long gone, and present day people like Max Boot, would be and are ashamed of this present day Republican Party.

All of that outlined above is the reality as a matter of historical fact that most hardline GOPers today deny with every breath nearly every single day.

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