The Republican Party has completely traded positions with Southern Democrats, the angry white males who need to put people down to feel superior.<\/p>\n
Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Yes, he actually said \u2018war on whites\u2019 – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a> <\/p>\n At this point, you really have to wonder: Is it still news when a Republican says something asinine? <\/p>\n On the off chance it is, let us spend a few moments pondering the strange case of Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks, who said last week that the Democratic Party is waging a \u201cWar on Whites.\u201d <\/p>\n Yeah, he actually said that. You can look it up if you want. \u2026 <\/p>\n [H]ere is what Brooks said: \u201cThis is a part of the war on whites that is being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they\u2019re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else. It\u2019s a part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cA War on Whites.\u201d Yet it\u2019s President Obama who is guilty of racially inflammatory rhetoric? ,,, <\/p>\n Brooks doubled down, repeating the claim in an interview with a website, AL.com: \u201cWhat the Democrats are doing with their dividing America by race is they are waging a war on whites and I find that repugnant.\u201d <\/p>\n Okay, so let\u2019s say the obvious first. There\u2019s something surreal and absurd about this lecture, coming as it does from a member of the party that invented the Southern strategy and birtherism and whose voters were last seen standing at the border screaming at terrified Guatemalan kids. But it\u2019s not the ridiculousness of Brooks\u2019 words that should be of greatest concern. You see, Fournier is right. If something does not arrest its present trajectory, the GOP seems destined to shrink into a regional party with appeal only to older white voters<\/strong>. [mjh: Make that *some* older white voters, not me or most of my older white friends.<\/em>] It will be irrelevant in a nation where white voters will soon cease to be a majority \u2014 no group will be a majority \u2014 and appeals to racial and cultural resentments have less power to sway elections\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Yes, he actually said \u2018war on whites\u2019 – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Republican Party has completely traded positions with Southern Democrats, the angry white males who need to put people down to feel superior. Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Yes, he actually said \u2018war on whites\u2019 – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com At this point, you really have to wonder: Is it still news when a Republican says … Continue reading “Is it still news when a Republican says something asinine?” — Leonard Pitts, Jr.<\/span> \n