Republicans’ Race War Predated Trump. And It May Outlast Him.
Their resentments are key to the party’s identity.
Talk about identity politics.
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In Greg Sargent’s new book, “An Uncivil War,” Republican pollster Whit Ayres talks about his research into Republican voter attitudes. Specifically, Ayres, who has repeatedly expressed dismay at the anti-immigrant direction of his party, talks about why so many Republicans are untroubled by its efforts to make voting difficult for racial minorities. Here is Sargent on Ayres:
Republican claims of pervasive voter fraud are unqualified junk. The baseless claims of the party’s chief vote-fraud hunter, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who could be elected his state’s governor on Tuesday, were exposed in a Kansas courtroom earlier this year.