Historians will spend the next century analyzing how a country with such allegedly grand democratic traditions was, so swiftly and so easily, brought to the brink of fascism. But one needn\u2019t stretch too far to conclude that an eight-year campaign of consistent and open racism aimed at the leader of the free world helped clear the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tea party real motive not economic but racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Republican party not just a white party but party to keep white privileged. ‘The Republican Party is not simply the party of whites, but the preferred party of whites who identify their interest as defending the historical privileges of whiteness.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Historians will spend the next century analyzing how a country with such allegedly grand democratic traditions was, so swiftly and so easily, brought to the brink of fascism. But one needn\u2019t stretch too far to<\/p>\n