Posted on 12/06/2018 4:00:54 AM PST by be-baw
Sub-headline: Bush’s tough-on-crime stance in his 1988 campaign has been cited by historians as helping to drive decades of politics low on justice or equity.
Inside the National Cathedral in Washington and beyond it on Wednesday, George H.W. Bush was lauded as a courageous and decorous leader, “America’s last great soldier-statesman.” He was described as a loving father, a man with an appreciation for the zany parts of life and, as one columnist put it, the vanishing embodiment of a ruling class of trusted WASPs.
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Bush employed a strategy of subtle stereotyping, playing on suspicion, fear and group-based guilt, political experts and historians say. The combination remains so potent that Democrats and Republicans have grappled for decades with Bush’s methods — and some have outright emulated them.
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In letters and reports Atwater wrote, scattered across several public figures’ archives, Atwater made it clear that politicians in the 1980s could not actually use the N-word, but that they needed to deliver messages conveying racial danger and inferiority with the same clarity to win, said Wright Rigueur, who is working on a book about black men and women who worked with Republican presidents and resisted them in the 1980s. (Atwater admitted as much in interviews and conversations in the final years of his life when he worried that future generations would assume he was a racist. A terminally ill Atwater apologized for his campaign tactics.)
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Oh...political experts! That settles it then.
No,I didn't think so!
LOL
Bury him, then pee on his grave. Typical.
You know what? I’m tired of honky crackers playing the race card all the time. Bottomfeeding, knuckledragging Neanderthals. You just can’t get no lower.
NBC should be ashamed....race baiting azzholes talk about decency..I hate these ******* P’sOS.
Enemy of the people.
Political ‘experts’. Oh I remember them. They said Donald Trump would never be President.
the dems race-bait openly and continuously and never apologize.
NBC == Fake News
Leftist are the masters of “subtle stereotyping, playing on suspicion, fear and group-based guilt” ... as usual, the liars in Big Media accuse others of what they themselves actually do.
Fake news:
“Bill Clinton’s most ballyhooed domestic program: Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, which he inaugurated in 1994 ... In political terms, it was pure gold. By pushing the then old-fashioned conservative idea of cracking down on bad guys with armies of men in blue, Clinton did a huge amount to steal the law-and-order issue from Republicans.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2001/11/invisible_cops.html
Just when you think MSNBC has reached the bottom, the get out the shovel and start digging.
They can’t have their base of unassimilated minorities go mainstream/become productive people; it would be the death of the party.
3 words: SENATOR ROBERT BYRD
I’m no GHWB fan but this article is a disgrace.
Let me guess...Janell is BLACK!
I was right!
And when Algore’s carbon footprint reaches zero will the media recall that it was he, a Democrat, who initiated the Willie Horton strategy? Somehow, I doubt it . . .
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