Very clever rhetoric meant to blame no one (...).
Here is racism in a nutshell: your judgment or actions depends on the race of the person concerned. The only nonracist policy is to be blind to race. One yardstick for everyone, one set of rules for everyone.
Now that is equality.
If someone is to blame for any remanence of racism in the United States today, nearly all of them vote blue, call themselves progressives and espouse racist policies under the guise of social justice. And you do not need to invoke intentions that we do not observe and you do not need to assume anyone needs to possess an enigma machine to translate words from English to Racist. It's written black on white in their arguments and the laws they support using the language they chose and every word is taken to have a common, public meaning that can be corroborated in any dictionary. Those people are racists. They make asinine comments about the paramount value of biological heritage and other irrelevant idiosyncrasies and they have the audacity, just like you, to project all of their own opinions on other people.
The conservative ideal is that the Founding Fathers got things pretty close to right: all human beings are equal, hence you treat all of them the same.
You can even compare how the Left and Donald Trump talks about immigration today. Trump distinguishes between people who enter legally and people who enter illegally. Among those who enter legally, he draws distinctions between areas who pose more or less serious threats to the safety of
all Americans, and those who will make positive contributions and those who won't. It doesn't mention skin color or religion. You have to
imagine intentions never stated and codes never revealed to call that racist because there is never any direct mapping to be made between what he says and skin color, or what he does and skin color. Contrast with Ocasio-Cortez. When she talks about immigration, how does she frame the problem? That's what I thought.
Open your damn eyes. Conservatives have been on the same side since the party was created. They like families, individual liberties, personal responsibility, and their country because it stands for those values. They dislike government schemes, regulations, unequal treatment of people, and people who are dependent on taxpayers. It has always been like that. Democrats have always stood for discriminatory policies of one form or another. They used to have content slaves as their moral stance. Now, they have content single mothers and unemployed minorities.
You can count as respectable Democrats all those who openly speak against political correctness and virulently oppose identity politics. Bill Maher is one example. He would disagree with me that Republicans aren't racists, but he routinely rips jokes at the PC police and other identitarian radicals. We agree where it matters. Pick your side. I'm on the side of Lincoln: the values expressed in the founding documents of the United States are what will kill discrimination. The ideas peddled by AOC and her ilk are antithetical to freedom and as unamerican as they get.