The author advances a new "Lost Cause" principle. A principle that has grown out of the Southern explanation of the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement. He looks at names only and not the history of the migration of southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) to the Republican Party. The Republican Party of today ignores the possibility of discrimination and focuses on the disruption people who see inequality not behaving as he would like and ignores the actions of whites doing the same thing. He also fails to note Republican party before Ronald Reagan was elected, still stood for Civil Rights and also abided by the precedents created by the Crash of 1929. Then banking "reforms" between 1986 to 2000 resulted in the housing and banking crisis of 2008 where phony assets of Mortgage Derivatives and Junk Bonds came crashing down like a house of cards.
I appreciated some of his analysis and--at least in principle--his argument about the need for a solid center to hold. But some of his premises and examples struck me as questionable.
This is very insightful. I gained a sense early on that he was writing his story around the current "right-wing" party without explaining Trump, who is a force of his own. The lack of center in our politics will not change if Americans fail to notice the clear "divide and conquer" politics of today.
The author advances a new "Lost Cause" principle. A principle that has grown out of the Southern explanation of the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement. He looks at names only and not the history of the migration of southern Democrats (Dixiecrats) to the Republican Party. The Republican Party of today ignores the possibility of discrimination and focuses on the disruption people who see inequality not behaving as he would like and ignores the actions of whites doing the same thing. He also fails to note Republican party before Ronald Reagan was elected, still stood for Civil Rights and also abided by the precedents created by the Crash of 1929. Then banking "reforms" between 1986 to 2000 resulted in the housing and banking crisis of 2008 where phony assets of Mortgage Derivatives and Junk Bonds came crashing down like a house of cards.
I appreciated some of his analysis and--at least in principle--his argument about the need for a solid center to hold. But some of his premises and examples struck me as questionable.
This is very insightful. I gained a sense early on that he was writing his story around the current "right-wing" party without explaining Trump, who is a force of his own. The lack of center in our politics will not change if Americans fail to notice the clear "divide and conquer" politics of today.