It really shows you how rotten to the core American conservatism has become. Decades of dishonest right-wing media (Fox, Rush, Hannity, Tucker, etc.) have convinced these people that Democrats are, to a man, so irredeemably evil that a man who by numerous accounts is pretty pervy with teenage girls, and who as a judge proudly defied multiple court orders, is the superior choice to even a middle-of-the-road Blue Dog like Jones.
Oh, and the Democrats are “racist.” :lamo
Historically..yeah.
"Every segregation law in the South was passed by a Democratic legislature, signed into power by a Democratic governor,
and enforced by Democratic sheriffs and Democratic city and state officials.
Most anti-miscegenation laws were passed in Democratic states. Progressives passed the racist Immigration Law of 1924 and celebrated it as a victory of
progressive science and progressive planning. The Ku Klux Klan was a creation of the Democrats and served for thirty years, in the words of
progressive scholar Eric Foner, as “the domestic terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”-Dinesh Desouza--
The Big Lie
The times change and the masks change color but song remains the same...
"So the big lie here involves Whitman and Katznelson shifting the blame
from the real culprits—the progressives and the Democrats—to a generic
“South” and an even more generic “America.” In doing this, they hope for
two outcomes. First, they hope that conservatives will fall for this ploy and
rush to the defense of the South and America. This would then make
conservatives the apologists for racism, segregation, and racial terrorism.
Sure enough, my former AEI colleague Josh Muravchik deplores
Whitman’s attempt to trace Nazi policies to American policies. Muravchik
doesn’t deny the Nazis appealed to American examples. Rather, he asks,
what’s the big deal? In other words, what difference did it make? He writes,
“Suppose for a moment the Nazis found no inspiration in American
examples. Would there have been no Nuremberg laws? Had there been no
American model, would one fewer Jew have died at Hitler’s hand?”8
Muravchik makes a good point. My answer to his questions is that the
Nuremberg Laws may have looked somewhat different, but the venom
against the Jews and other target populations would have continued unabated.
No one is saying the Nazis learned how to hate Jews from American
examples of racism, or that America motivated the Nazis to kill more Jews.
The point, rather, is that the Nazis figured out a way to institutionalize their
anti-Semitism using a legal precedent that already existed across the Atlantic.
In this respect, established racism in this country helped to establish racism in
that one.
Alas, for all Muravchik’s ingenuity, he has been trapped into a
minimization of racism in a vain attempt to exonerate America. He is going
just where Whitman and Katznelson hoped he would go. What he should be
doing, instead, is showing that “America” didn’t do any of this—the
Democrats did. Unwittingly Muravchik ends up covering up for the racism of
the Democratic Party, and letting the Left off the hook.
Practitioners of the big lie, like Whitman and Nelson, have a second
objective. Incredibly, this is the objective of turning the villains of their story
into its heroes. By clearing the Democrats and the progressives of blame,
they intend to pave the way for these same Democrats to offer themselves as
the solution for racism. As the big lie unfolds, somehow the very people who
have poisoned the water reappear dressed as the water commissioner."-Dinesh Desouza--
The Big Lie
What a scam.
