This headline is interesting: Republicans Are Nervous about Being the Party of White Grievance

[rpannier]

Don't know why. That is what the Republicans have been for over 2 decades

[stopdiggin]

1. that WOULD seem to be just a bit ironic

where are you seeing this headline? This might be good for some light reading.

[rpannier]

2. electoral-vote.com

https://electoral-vote.com/

Two stories down
It's short

There are two interesting stories beneath
What Is the Next Big Threat?

Was the Faustian Bargain the Republicans Made Worth It?

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. It's a summary of this WaPo article from Saturday:

Trump’s push to amplify racism unnerves Republicans who have long enabled him

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213698531

President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans who have long enabled him but now fear losing power and forever associating their party with his racial animus.

Although amplifying racism and stoking culture wars have been mainstays of Trump’s public identity for decades, they have been particularly pronounced this summer as the president has reacted to the national reckoning over systemic discrimination by seeking to weaponize the anger and resentment of some white Americans for his own political gain.

Trump has left little doubt through his utterances the past few weeks that he sees himself not only as the Republican standard-bearer but as leader of a modern grievance movement animated by civic strife and marked by calls for “white power,” the phrase chanted by one of his supporters in a video the president shared last weekend on Twitter. He later deleted the video but did not disavow its message.

Trump put his strategy to resuscitate his troubled reelection campaign by galvanizing white supporters on display Friday night under the chiseled granite gaze of four past presidents memorialized in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He celebrated Independence Day with a dystopian speech in which he excoriated racial justice protesters as “evil” representatives of a “new far-left fascism” whose ultimate goal is “the end of America.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-racism-white-nationalism-republicans/2020/07/04/2b0aebe6-bbaf-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

[rpannier]

9. Thank you

[struggle4progress]

3. TWO decades? Oh, dear, no! FIVE decades or more. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a hurricane

that blew the Dixiecrats every which way, and Nixon's GOP in 1968 was eager to gather them up. There was a wave of party-switching racists into the early 1970s. The GOP has been recruiting nutcases more and more ever since

[RockRaven]

4. More like 4-5+ decades. Reagan and the Religious Right were explicitly engaged in

white grievance bullshit. And they've never stopped.

The only difference is that now the numbers don't add up so well and there is a prospect of a downside looming. Lemme get out my violin for these moral monsters...

[sop]

5. Republicans always run their campaigns against things, Democrats always campaign for things.

White grievance is the ultimate negative campaign tactic.

[bringthePaine]

6. that ship didn't just sail. it burst into fucking flames going over the horizon...

[malaise]

7. Two decades?

Way longer than that

[Aristus]

10. I was going to say: they never were before.

And they even thrived on it...

[marmar]

11. Wow. Republicans discover their party is fueled by racism.

Next they'll discover that they use abortion as a wedge issue.

[GulfCoast66]

12. LBJ predicted signing the Civil Rights act would lose the South for a decade. He was wrong.

It’s going on 3 decades. But it is slowly starting to unravel. This will be a pretty close election. But as the years go by the republicans will get less and less relevant. And the thing is they are incapable of changing because they have made the religious nuts their base. Goldwater warmed them about tying themselves to the religious nuts because they are incapable of compromising.

Lindsey Graham warned them in the primary in 16 that trump would destroy the party if nominated.

He may be proved correct.