B'bye GOP...
Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash.
And everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision.
From the New York Times, 1 January 2009 post, by Paul Krugman:
So the reign of George W. Bush, the first true Southern Republican president since Reconstruction, was the culmination of a long process. And despite the claims of some on the right that Mr. Bush betrayed conservatism, the truth is that he faithfully carried out both his party’s divisive tactics — long before Sarah Palin, Mr. Bush declared that he visited his ranch to “stay in touch with real Americans” — and its governing philosophy.
That’s why the soon-to-be-gone administration’s failure is bigger than Mr. Bush himself: it represents the end of the line for a political strategy that dominated the scene for more than a generation…
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