I found this quote very confusing @ RawStory. Going to the source, Sollenberger dissects the trouble at the RNC in good detail, including the fact that a Georgia community centers cost about $3500 monthly in 2022 while at the same time Trump’s legal woes tapped the RNC for $1.6M.
It is a monumentally stupid move by the RNC. NY Times The Daily has been exploring:
The Unhappy Voters who could Swing the Election
and
Voters Willing to Abandon Biden over Gaza
Here’s hoping the RNC leaves a vacuum in the Texas Rio Grande Valley area. If the DNC capitalizes on that vacuum, it could mean a lot for Texas politics.
No money at all for every race below president would be nice
I somehow missed this level of Castle Wolfenstein.
Durham county clearly didn’t attract enough Black Republicans to justify whatever they spent on those banners.
Except that they fully believe in white supremacy now and are running on that, with the full support of their base. Anyone voting for them, is okay with white supremacy. This is who they are. Believe them.
Ah. The Lack Republicans.
Something is lacking, alright.
Having been there, and over the years having had friends who live(d) there, I continue to be mystified as to why anyone still thinks identity politics is a thing. Some of the most intense 
loyalists in the Valley are folks who are either immigrants or first-generation U.S.ians.
I see what you mean, and agree in that context, but I also think “identity politics” is still very much a thing in other contexts. Two examples-- Republican white supremacy is real, and a lot of black voters appreciate politicians who manage to effect real change for black people.
Maybe we have a different sense of that term?
I agree with your two examples. And I’d like to pitch simply “white supremacy is real” period, and is a longstanding source of human suffering, from colonial exploitation to redlining to the crap I ran across about Stephen Miller: yech!
A conservative legal group led by longtime Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller reported a nearly 600% jump in its revenue, raising $44 million in 2022 compared with $6 million in 2021, according to a new tax filing.
The increase came as the group, America First Legal, expanded its work filing lawsuits and complaints against corporations, school districts, major law firms and other institutions that it calls “woke” and “radical.” America First Legal specializes in litigation over controversial culture war issues such as diversity in hiring programs, transgender rights, immigration and former President Trump’s legal battles.
My understanding of the term1 is the the presumption that all Catholics vote a specific one predictable way, or all working class people vote a specific single predictable way, or all “Asians” vote a specific predictable one way, etc.
Among my refreshed datapoints have been one to one conversations I have with working class people of color in Texas who clearly are not rich by any stretch of the imagination being so utterly pro-TFG. Starting in 2015, I got the feeling that I had to throw out all of my previous assumptions about what I knew about U.S. voters and politics. And up until rather recently, I did a lot of blockwalking and phonebanking for Dem candidates I believe in here in Central Texas.
So my guess is that the term is more plastic than the one wiki definition.
Yes, I think so, and thanks for explaining your sense of it.
I do not understand this at all. Yes, the leopards will eat your face! And if your skin is darker than copy paper, it won’t even be last! Baffling, totally baffling.
I think most people come from failed “socialist” countries really allergied to the term “socialism” The GQP did a good job associated DNC and Democratic Party to that term. To those communities, who experienced the failed system but not actual fascism, their default behavior would be “anything is better than socialism.” I see it in Cuban communities and South East Asian immigrants personally. I think if the definition is explained to them, they would mostly agree with it but the term is a taboo. I don’t think the understanding of “socialism” among BB’s readers and these communities are the same thing. The GQP had turned it into a dog whistle of fear and it’s pretty effective to manipulate these communities.
so true. i see it also in miami and even among people i know here in the upper keys. listening to Spanish radio news, the slant is very right-wing. all about fear mongering and talking shit about Democratic politicians. and this is targeted to the Cuban and Venezuelan communities in south florida. it is very extreme.
here, locally, the very wealthy Cubans have second homes - “beach houses” - and while our house was being rebuilt, we rented the entire downstairs floor of a large waterfront home owned by a Cuban couple who spent most of their time in miami. the gentleman was quite affable, funny and threw a great 4th of July party. we absolutely could not talk politics. a single mention of my disregard for (then preznit) tRump, got me the silent treatment from him for weeks. some beers and some fishing got us talking again, but it was icy thereafter.
insular, very “conservative” and always angry that new arrivals were not supposed to be here. “send them back” and “they don’t belong here” are the words they use as they work hard to pull ladders that they, themselves, had been offered so long ago.
some are second and third generation Cuban immigrants who have only mom or gramma’s stories from the island. their understanding of the word “socialism” means life under a dictator, and has no real-world relation to the term.
100%. It’s even more complicated for some immigrant communities. It’s not just perceived suffering under socialist or communist countries. It’s escaping revolutions against a fascist dictatorship when they or their family were favored or even a part of the dictatorship. Resentment against being displaced from both their home and from their position of privilege can take a long time to kick. Multigenerational at times.
I have a friend who grew up in the USSR with the same concept of “socialism”. I’ve tried talking to him about it, plainly stating that he grew up under a totalitarian dictatorship with a command economy, but he won’t hear of it - it was “socialism” and it was bad. You can’t even point out that Norway has a blended socialist economy and people there are very happy with it. To him, Norway has a well-regulated capitalist economy. You know what they say, you can’t reason someone out of an opinion they didn’t reason themselves into. 
I’d be pretty happy for America to do that, then.
Right?! If pretending that socializing economic centers that absolutely should never be for-profit is actually well-regulated capitalism, I’m all in!
See, for example, monarchist Iranian exiles.
It looks like they’re arguing. My guess is over who gets to wear blackface this time.
