Democrats, on the other hand, average ones at least, white or black, are for all people of color or orientation, but especially color, everywhere, call them Brothers in Color, an equally unrealistic liberal global socialist pipe dream.
It seems quite fair to say that Trump Republicans are very much like Lincoln Republicans in their outlook, radicalism, and racism. Lincoln was touted as a moderate, but that is harder and harder to believe going forward.
If such an authority as Tocqueville is to be believed, they were more racist than white Southerners, already, in Tocqueville's time.
Ante Bellum white Democrats (the only kind who could then vote) were also very much racists, and radicalized in similar ways regarding their states' rights and property rights in negroes.
The most inflammatory politicians in both parties had fanned these antagonistic flames for decades on and off.
See Wikipedia, Reconstruction era
See also recent DK post excerpt below:
"Saturday, November 17, 2018
Race and politics, 2018
I have written here a number of times about postmodern ideology, which in my adult lifetime I have watched take over university life in the United States, becoming the dominant approach to the study of history and literature, and which has now become extremely influential among most liberals, many of whom probably don't understand what it is or where it came from. Its dominant tenets, I would argue, are more or less as follows.
Human society is defined by struggles among different demographic groups contesting for power. White people--especially straight white males--have traditionally dominated society, oppressing women, LGBTQs, and nonwhites. Each of us carries in our genes either the sins or the victimhood of our ancestors. All right-thinking people have a duty to reduce the imbalance between straight white males on the one hand, and everyone else on the other. A key aspect of white male oppression is visibility. We need far more nonwhitemales in visible positions--such as positions of power--to correct for centuries of oppression.
Given this mindset, Democrats have easily adopted the equation, white people bad, nonwhites good, with the corollary (sometimes) that the really bad white people are men. In another manifestation of this tendency, when a few white men commit terrible crimes, commentators (and Facebook posts) immediately cite them as proof of the intrinsic, evil nature of white men. When President Trump does this about immigrants, we accuse him (rightly) of racism, but doing it about white men is quite acceptable in liberal circles. Those who hold these views are also entirely intolerant of those who don't, which is why many liberal women view the 50% of American white women who voted Republican this month as traitors to their sex and are not afraid to say so.
The postmodern ideology, to a surprising extent, has convinced a lot of us that American politics are fundamentally about a racial divide. I would like to present some figures from the election to suggest that this ideology has made it impossible to see reality clearly...." DK
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