oh SHIT

""As of right now, there exists no serious strategy to combat this new bigotry. The Democratic leadership appears content to hope that once these radical Republican race-baiters take control of Congress after the midterm elections, the ordinary responsibilities and realities of power will force them to abandon the strategies they used to obtain power. That is, after all, what the Democrats do. The activist left, marginalized by the centrist Democratic party yet always hoping to be led by it, never imagined that they’d have to refight political racism, and so failed to try to force Republican bigots to defend their unacceptable rhetoric and even more unacceptable policies in the few neutral media venues that still exist. And it did seem improbable that we’d have to refight the old civil rights battles so soon after an election that so many wished was the “historic” culmination of African Americans’ struggle for equal rights. If we lived in better times, it might have sufficed to let the Tea Party’s reactionaries dig their own graves. The trouble now appears to be that a new white ethno-nationalism of imaginary victimization — something that can only be racism, but can’t publicly be called “racism” — will infect American politics for years to come.""

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My d r a l a hurts...