A report from the Public Religion Research Institute quantified that Republicans, as a...
In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, photo, supporters listen as President Donald Trump speaks as a Confederate-themed and other flags flutter in the wind during a rally in Washington.Maybe that’s an ungenerous way to respond to a study on an important social issue by a respected, nonpartisan think tank.
Again, this is hardly shocking. From the party’s scramble to keep Black people from voting, to its performative cruelty toward South Americans seeking asylum, to its embrace of the most brazenly racist president since Woodrow Wilson, Republican bigotry has long been self-evident. It is past time for the rest of us to face it, yet one still hears people, even at this late date, even in the face of multiple studies to the contrary, ascribe its descent into its current madness to economic stress. But that just ain’t so.
They have become what they are specifically because some of us are panicked at the thought of Black people, brown people, LGBTQ people, Muslim people and other historically disfavored people coming to visibility and power, and the GOP realized that catering to that resentment was a way to win votes. And also because there is no principle they will not abandon in doing so.Support for law enforcement? Not when the laws are being enforced against Trump.
The one principle they will not compromise is the protection of straight, white hegemony. That’s why, in the words of a satirical old Randy Newman song, “keepin’ the n———- down” is pretty much the whole Republican platform. This is something the rest of us need to face promptly and squarely if we are to have any hope of understanding — much less fixing — what’s wrong with this country. What the PRRI report quantified is damning and sad, yes. But here’s one thing it isn’t.
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