How can the Republican Party be the self-proclaimed protector of the unborn while at the same time be advocating for a return-to-work policy during the COVID-19 pandemic that risks lives already being lived?<\/p>\n
Gross hypocrisy? Not really. What then? <\/p>\n
For almost my entire life, the Republican Party has perpetrated a scheme as old as civilization itself: divide and conquer, or, divide and rule if you prefer the Latin version (divide et impera). <\/p>\n
The Republican Partys Southern strategy, utilized by both the Goldwater and Nixon presidential campaigns, was based on appealing to aggrieved white Southerners. In 1980, Ronald Reagan delivered a states rights speech at a fairgrounds only a few miles from Philadelphia, Miss., a town associated with the gruesome murders of three civil rights activists in 1964. <\/p>\n
With respect to George H.W. Bushs presidential campaign in 1988, recall the infamous Willie Horton ads, a low point for dog-whistle politics. In 2004, political observers accused George W. Bush of using coded language to imply that Supreme Court decisionsi.e., Roe v. Wadecould be reversed. <\/p>\n
Of course, W also mired us in the Iraq War, with estimates for Iraqi deaths ranging from 110,000 to more than a million. Does anyone feel safer today? <\/p>\n
And now, our current divider-in-chief is cheering on us-against-them armed protestswhere the them are often health care workers pleading for common sense for the common good.<\/p>\n
President Trump stands before us like a crop of wheat ready for harvest. To Republican strategists, past and present, representing an immoral minority, I say, Reap what youve sown.<\/p>\n
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