Republicans “Ain’t Your Little Friends”
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The Grand Old Party died. The GOP of your parents and grandparents passed away some time ago, with little fanfare and no eulogies.
You don’t remember going to the republican funeral but you were there.
Well, you were there if you were alive in 1980 when Ronald Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign in a racist stronghold of Philadelphia, Mississippi, where he championed “states rights” in the city where the infamous mass murder of Civil Rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner happened. The Black and Jewish…