Why do Republicans have to lie? Constantly?
If Bruce Bartlett feels that it is now incorrect to label the GOP racist, then he should try to make that argument. Instead he chooses to rewrite history and distort obvious facts. It's a despicable way to undermine a Democracy.
Memeorandum led me to his asinine pile of dung in the Opinion Journal, in which he quotes Democrats, starting with Thomas Jefferson, who have made racist remarks. He fails to quote Lincoln from his fourth debate with Douglas:
I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause] ... I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people;
No sane Democrat denies that the party was the home for southern racists from the 1860's to the 1960's. Quoting Calhoun on "Negroes" is not only a waste of time, it is an attempt to further ignorance and justify racism.
Bartlett's work is a toilet overflowing with lies and deceit - too full of crap to fit into the sewer. For exp ample he tries to disprove Paul Krugman's accurate accusation of Republican Racism by writing that
A key piece of evidence for Mr. Krugman is that Ronald Reagan gave his first speech after accepting the Republican presidential nomination in 1980 near Philadelphia, Miss., where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. In the course of this speech, Reagan said he supported "states' rights
Although Krugman's analysis of the event was completely accurate, Bartlett relies on a Regan biographer and David Brooks to prove otherwise. Except he even misrepresents these thoroughly unreliable sources - both of whom argued that Regan was not personally a racist, not that the Republican party was not using a racist strategy. Even more importantly, the speech in Mississippi was not a "key piece" of evidence to Krugman's case. This is a blatant lie, and Bartlett counts of the laziness of his reader to not have read the book, in which more than ample evidence of the Republican "Southern Strategy" is presented.
Republican racism has been a fact in recent decades: why don't they change that, instead of trying to rewrite reality.
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