The more things change... Ever since Reagan, we've been handed an Establishment consensus that opposition to supply side economics is class warfare, and that government doesn't work—though it just might, if only Democrats were more accommodating.
As government haters have hastened over the last thirty years to grab control of said government, racism has been the name of the game in reaching their voters.
The tactic was elevated to the national stage by Nixon and refined by Reagan.
Driftglass has written powerfully about this for years; sadly, the trick never changes.
Here he is a couple of days ago, on the psychology of the party's rank and file.
And about the GOP since Reagan, Driftglass observes here "how a party-line change happens in a totalizing cult like North Korea or the GOP."
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