Republicans’ white supremacist problem is a threat to America | Carol Anderson
The party has reinforced racism, homophobia and misogyny to tilt the electorate as far to the right as possible
The Republicans have a problem. A white supremacist problem. Decades ago they made a crass political calculation to use the Southern Strategy and ride white resentment and patriarchy to untold power and glory. Instead, they ended up with Donald Trump. He is a man who wallows in a white supremacy so virulent and toxic that it has provided the blueprint and the targets for mass murderers.
The Republicans’ road to perdition required mastery of coded racist policy language, such as “welfare queen”, “forced busing” and “law and order”, to lure disaffected white people out of the Democratic party and into the Republican party. The Southern Strategy was so ruthless in its lurch to the right that it actually neutralized the moderates and drove the majority of African Americans out of the party.