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the beauty of motherjones articles is, they are true journalism so the good trolls avoid the comments
Oh cool, so they're mixing their 2008 (racism) and 2016 (sexism) campaign strategies together.
I think you mean far-right trolls punch themselves in the dick by sabotaging their outreach efforts to black voters. Don't let me get in their way.
Part of me wants Harris to pick a gay Hispanic VP just so the right shows their whole ass.
Pete buttigieg is gay and a possible vp candidate, though not hispanic.
Not Hispanic, but Pete Buttigieg is a possibility!
Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
Man its gonna be hard to deny how racist the gop can be.
This is unironically good for Kamala's chances. The average person in the US is racist, but not racist enough to not to feel second hand embarrassment from such overt comments, which may, ironically, make them a little bit less racist and make them think twice before voting Republican in 2024.
It also basically make black voters more willing to support her and go to vote.
I know that bullshit appeals to other trolls... but isn't open racism actually counterproductive at this point? Most voters alive today never knew a world where interracial marriage was illegal - and most of us grew up in public schools being exposed to a wide variety of cultures.
You might have been around when Obama ran for president. Yes it was an issue, including after he was elected. Long form birth certificate anyone?
Birth certificate? How about when he was hanged in effigy. Multiple times.
I distinctly remember people holding signs of Obama's face pasted on the body of a chimpanzee. Another honorary mention from the campaign was the slogan "keep the white house white".
The racism was so fucking blatant and Republicans expect us to pretend it never happened.
Did he not win both terms?
Dems don't lose the next election because the right-wing is racist, they lose when they fail to listen to their base and try to gaslight their constituents. The energy created when young voters, progressives and independents are given a reason to go out and vote smashes any kind of advantage the GOP tries to glean from playing the bigotry cards. Clinton was not that reason.
People need to let go of this idea that Democrats' job is to appeal to the right and be conciliatory. Conservatives don't vote democrat, regardless of how far to the right the Dems go. They only play up the swing voter fantasy to weaken democrats and get neoliberals going off on a wild goose chase for votes they'll never secure while at the same time neglecting and demoralizing their own base.
You thought it was bad for Obama? Buckle up, we're in for a wild ride.
It was bad for Barack because he was Black. It was bad for Hillary because she was a woman. Kamala gets the best of both worlds
She'll get the whole basket of deplorables - the sexists and the bigots.
quelle surprise!
I've accepted the racism and sexist thing as a real risk for Kamala. But I think most Democrats have accepted it too and are coalescing around her.
Here we go people. Buckle up and prepare for a ton of racist and sexist attacks. I assume the Lawyer / Prosecutor experience for Harris will come in handy for this and she'll come up with good Rhetoric / political plan for the situation.
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly for VP could help insulate Kamala from these attacks. A lot of good VP picks actually could help.
Risk? It's great. Racist and sexist people were not gonna vote Democrat anyway. All this is doing is alienating the black and female Republican voter base.
The women who were on the fence won't be swayed by this. If you are a woman and you were even slightly thinking about voting for Trump then you are already so far to the right that nothing i can think of will get you to change your mind.
Not the women who were on the fence of voting for Trump but the fence of not voting.
Ehhh I'd argue there's definitely a good portion of sexist mysogynist Democrats
Bless their hearts
I admit, I wasn't expecting them to go as far as using "Colored" as a general insult. Do they seriously think this helps Trump's chances?
Racist fucks doing exactly what everyone expected.
They're not trolls when they're just the mainstream the Republican Party
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