Posted on 09/05/2017 5:55:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Leave it to the donkey party to act an ass and see an opportunity dangled before it and stupidly squander time debating whether or not an obvious winning strategy is worth pursuing.
Politico reports that Democrats are torn over how to handle what happened in Charlottesville, Va., the debate over Confederate monuments in general and the larger issues of racial tensions that each speaks to.
Apparently, while some want to actively push for votes on hate crimes and combating domestic terrorism, strategists stress that Democrats “should be careful about how deeply they wade into a fraught debate over identity politics—particularly one focused on Confederate statues that risks dividing the electorate.”
This is boring-white-man-in-a suit-that-needs-tailoring-speak for “Don’t scare too many racist white people.” To let these strategists tell it, they may be stepping into a Republican-designed trap. Meanwhile, it’s interesting that Politico reporters Elana Schor and Gabriel Debenedetti cite former Sweet Potato Saddam strategist Steve Bannon’s previous claims that Democrats lose when they peddle identity politics, without denoting that Bannon, the white nationalist who ran the site with the black-crime section, peddles identity politics his damn self.
That tablespoon of irony aside, they note that some Democrats think fighting over monuments is impractical given that it speaks more to symbolism rather than substantive issues related to racism like voter suppression. However, now that we’ve seen that people can be injured, if not murdered, over fights over Confederate monuments, the issue has since shown itself to be a matter of public safety. In other words, Democrats, get you some pols who can do both....
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Mr. Arcenaux needs to put a sock in it.
Unseasoned chicken, no.
More like uncooked chicken.
More like un-refrigerated chicken in the desert.
Typical whitey-hating black leftist drivel. Tiresome. Beyond tiresome.
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