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> Obama was president in 2014. Yes, and had been since 2009. I’m still not sure how you expect the racist backlash starting in 2008 to have been triggered by t
by acdha 1y ago
> Obama was president in 2014.
Yes, and had been since 2009. I’m still not sure how you expect the racist backlash starting in 2008 to have been triggered by time travelers from 2014. People were threatening to lynch him before he was sworn in and the mainstream Republican Party leaders weren’t willing to give those people the treatment David Duke got in the 90s - McConnell tried to spin all of that “one term president” talk as solely about policy but all of the context made it quite clear that they wouldn’t have been so motivated for, say, Kerry.
- lurk2 1y ago> the racist backlash starting in 2008 I’m denying that this was a significant force in American politics until the latter half of Obama’s presidency. These people existed; they were not influential. > McConnell tried to spin all of that “one term president” talk as solely about policy but all of the context made it quite clear that they wouldn’t have been so motivated for, say, Kerry. What context are you referring to? Would you attribute black Republicans like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell to political tokenism intended to appeal to black voters? I know that the prevailing sentiment (among the media I consumed back then, anyways) was that George Bush was a racist who hated black and brown people, but looking back, I just don’t see it. That element of American society doesn’t look influential until the late 2010s and early 2020s when Thiel started buying his way in, and by that point it’s an entirely different cohort.