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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's hard to remain 100% principled and get anything done in politics. Some compromise is inevitable. But what current Republicans have sacrificed anything to oppose racism?
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Jeb Bush, one could argue. Mark Sanford. Many non-elected GOP professionals and opinionistas (sic transit gloria mundi to the Weekly Standard).
And New Deal Dems? Only one I can think of is maybe Henry Wallace. It took border southerners to make effective changes re racists (Harry Truman desegregating the military and LBJ* with the Voting Rights Act etc).
I don’t say this to excuse the GOP or any of its craven office holders who may not be racist but play one on tv. Just that racism is a white and largely nonpartisan disease.
*I know, but it terms of politics, it was considered a border state before 1980 or so.
