Democrats made structural racism a centerpiece of the 2020 presidential primary. Now the Republican rebuttal is emerging as an early plank of the 2024 GOP contest: America is not a racist country
He added, “No, America is not racist.”
For those voters, it may be reassuring for a presidential contender to tell them that they aren’t. One Republican strategist who attended the RGA meeting said the assertion that “America is not a racist country” works because it evokes “part of what Trump’s counter was when he was on the rise. It was simple — Make America Great Again, proud to be an American. It’s not approaching every problem in America as if we did something wrong, we’re awful.
But Trump, the Democratic response, and civil unrest following the police murder of George Floyd last year all served to amplify concerns about racial justice and racial equity during the presidential election.
In the Republican messaging on race, Democrats say they are confronting both a straw man argument and what Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, called “[Former RNC Chair] Lee Atwater stuff … which is the dog whistles.”, this is why they talk about CRT [critical race theory] and everything else, other than the things that really have an impact on the lives of the American people,” Harrison said.
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