A punitive brand of conservatism embraced by Trump and some GOP hardliners is rapidly falling out of step with public opinion
are different. … I look out my window in Washington and see 10 protesters. Seven of them are white, and three of them are black.”
In the short term, however, it’s the reformers who are swimming upstream. To upend generations of conservative orthodoxy will require more than Mitt Romney marching with Black Lives Matter protesters in Washington or Steve King being cast off by the party in Iowa. It will require conceding that something is foundationally wrong with American policing. It will require acknowledging—and detailing—the existence of systemic racism in the criminal justice system.
Bush began to soften, however, both in tone and approach, as he made the leap to the national stage. He made minority outreach a focal point of the 2000 campaign. He took ownership of the brilliantly ambiguous phrase “compassionate conservative,” which had been floating around the evangelical-Republican ether. Some of this was shrewd politics. But it was also personal.
“He took race back to the ’60s, as far as I’m concerned. He made everything a race issue, or at least saw it through a racial lens,” Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator and president of the Heritage Foundation, once told me. “The country had moved toward bending over backward to create equality. But then suddenly, with Obama, he just lit the fires. I thought when he was elected that was the big victory, that we had put racism behind us.
“For black folks, especially older black folks, when they hear a white man talking about ‘law and order,’ that means get your ass in the house before dark,” Steele said. “And for the president to say, ‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’—what the hell do you thinkmeans to us? He knows. The man is 70-something years old. He knows what that means to us. He knows what we hear. And he also knows a white person hears something totally different.
“There will always be some hard asses on the Republican side,” Rove added. “But the days of ‘lock ‘em up and throw away the key’ are long gone. It’s just no longer sufficient.”” Nikki Haley tweeted on May 30, five days after Floyd’s killing and four days into the intensifying demonstrations. “It’s important to understand that the death of George Floyd was personal and painful for many. In order to heal, it needs to be personal and painful for everyone.
This was not Carlson merely settling some personal vendetta with Haley. The Fox News fire-breather also savaged other “so-called conservative leaders” during that same monologue, denouncing Vice President Mike Pence and former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, among others, for their public remarks over the weekend. Their crime? Acknowledging the continuing scourge of racism in America.The clip of Carlson rebuking Haley rocketed around the GOP universe.
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