Arguing that America was built on white culture gets at an accurate insight by an indirect path: “whiteness” and “Americanness” are often treated as equivalent. (MS NOW)
“Commentary: With immigration losing its edge, Republicans find a new boogeyman: 'Radical Islam'” (Los Angeles Times)
It ain’t no longer the Art of the Deal, it is and actually has been for anyone who has paid attention to the Republican Party, the Art of the Hate. When there is really nothing new to offer, and your policies have begun to unravel as purposefully and willfully weighed to the very wealthy Americans, as a political party, as in the Republicans, an easy out is necessary to continue and sell the snake oil, and the easiest action is to offer hate. Hate wrapped up in a Bible no one reads, but almost everyone who has not read it personally is preached to by clergy, who understand that their power remains powerful only as long as their congregation remains weak, and thinks they are weakened by anyone who does not look like them, has sex like they do, or worships the kind of God they do.
Whoever the folks are behind the Republican Art of Hate, they are, in fact, very smart people, smart enough to know that words like inclusivity, commonality, and equality burn the souls of way too many people, who are usually uneducated, but educated enough to CHASTISE, to DISRESPECT, and to HATE. The PR folks in the Republican Party understand that losers never win, and when they don’t win, they blame their losses on anyone but themselves.
