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Donald Trump & Elon Musk (he/himmler) have built their political power base on a retro white male “Christian” constituency that lives in total terror of strong women & people of color.
Here's the appropriate historic root “Southern Strategy” quote from Lee Atwater, George H.W. Bush’s very own Josef Goebbels, with [DEI] subbed in where it belongs:
"You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.”
"By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires.
"So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, [DEI] and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract.
"Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes [and DEI], and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks [and women] get hurt worse than whites [and men].…
“We want to cut this [DEI] ,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
In 1988, Atwater ran Bush One's campaign for president. His attacks on women were less pronounced at the time. But Atwater notoriously linked Democratic Presidential nominee Michael Dukakis to a black parolee named Willie Horton with a wide range of unmistakable insinuations.
Three years later, dying of brain cancer at age 40, Atwater made a death bed repentance:"I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which I am not.”
Will such repentance ever come from Donald & Elon?
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The full context of Lee Atwater’s quote can be found in HARVEY “SLUGGO”
WASSERMAN’s THE PEOPLE’S SPIRAL OF US HISTORY: From Jigonsaseh to Solartopia (www.solartopia.org).