the thing with caving to bigotry, besides being unconscionable, is that it actually makes things worse for you politically it signals to people that the bigots have a point - and if that’s true, well, why wouldn’t they go with the people screaming about it the loudest if it’s such a problem?
Disgraceful www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Adeel Mangi's chances of winning confirmation in the U.S. Senate to become the nation's first Muslim federal appeals court judge have been diminished after Senator Jacky Rosen of Nevada became the latest Democrat to publicly announce she would vote against him.
Step 1. Give bigots the cover of "bipartisanship"
Part CCLXVII of "Examples of why the D Party seems to not even be the *kind* of organization that might be able to save the Repubic."
Remember when LBJ was like "fuck the bigots?" Good times