NYT got in some first-class 2014 trolling in under the wire. http://t.co/EHvMRxFHsZ
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 1, 2015
Kudos to reporter Jeremy Alford, actually:
… In his 1991 campaign for governor against Edwin W. Edwards, Mr. Duke largely avoided explicitly racial campaigning, appealed to the frustrations and resentments of white voters and won more than 60 percent of the white vote while losing in a runoff election. Two decades later, much of his campaign has merged with the political mainstream here, and rather than a bad memory from the past, Mr. Duke remains a window into some of the murkier currents in the state’s politics where Republicans have sought and eventually won Mr. Duke’s voters, while turning their back on him…
During the 1991 race for governor, Mr. Duke attempted to build a bridge between the Klansman he was and the polished politician he wanted to be. He told voters he regretted being “too intolerant” in his youth and said he would not disown his daughters if they brought home an African-American or Jewish boyfriend.
Instead, he focused on anti-big government and anti-tax mantras that preceded the Tea Party movement. His decision to run to the right of the field is now a common maneuver in Louisiana’s open primary system.
Mr. Duke supported forcing welfare recipients to take birth control. Now there are near-perennial attempts by members of the Louisiana Legislature to give welfare recipients drug tests.
After being elected to the state House of Representatives in 1989, Mr. Duke filed nine bills, including measures implementing stricter guidelines for residents of public housing, repealing affirmative action programs and eliminating minority set-asides…
But if Mr. Duke became a third rail for Louisiana Republicans, some Republicans have seen value in courting Mr. Duke’s voters. When he successfully ran for Louisiana governor in 1995, Mr. Foster paid $150,000 for a list of Mr. Duke’s supporters and received his endorsement during the campaign. Mr. Foster said he never used the list, but it did result in a grand jury investigation and an ethics fine for the former governor after the expenditure was not properly reported….
Remember, though, it’s the Democrats who are the real racists Socialists:
@daveweigel I'm waiting on the article showing that @SenSanders and Lenin share some of the same ideas. I won't hold my breath.
— NewYorkLibertarian (@NYLibertariann) January 1, 2015
Redshift
What? No Winter Classic open thread?
The game was excellent, the weather was as good for outdoor hockey as DC is likely to get. Being there was lots of fun.
And the Capitals are undefeated outdoors!
Not Adding Much to the Community
“NewYorkLibertarian (@NYLibertariann)” Christ, what an asshole.
jnfr
It’s good to see some truth about this in the NYT. This racial history still sends waves through our politics and we need to recognize it, openly.
Michael Bersin
“…Sanders and Lenin share some of the same ideas…”
And Helen Gahagan Douglas was “found” to have voted with Vito Marcantonio.
Obviously congenitally unable to understand the concept of the Overton Window. A feature, not a bug for Libertarians (republicans who just want to smoke dope).
Bob In Portland
Ah, first opportunity of the year to call America a fascist nation. (This should enrage Mnem because of Jim Crow, but I’ll risk it.)
Give up, BJers. Your country is fucked. It lies to you all the time, lies you into wars all the time, and even if the Mighty Wurlitzer can bring back some nostalgic hate for Russia, it’s still lies.
Obama, like Clinton, is merely a myth of a Democrat. That Congress voted unanimously for $350 million for next spring’s war in Ukraine is the tell. The weapons are not to defend Ukraine. It’s to restart the war to further destabilize the region. Does anyone think it would be for any other purpose?
People are pretty dumb, especially when it comes to patriotic wars, and the Banderites have been stewing in their juices for 70 years, so many of the paraders in Kiev overnight will kill and be killed this year. Expect a heavier influx of American advisors on the battlefield. The Ukrainian army can’t be trusted on its own.
This is not for freedoms, just like bombing Libya was not about freedom, or Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan et al are not about freedom. It’s all about oil. It’s a lie. It’s a lie that most people here at BJ have swallowed, hook, line and sinker. This is a little more serious than our other wars because Russia understands and Russia has nuclear weapons. So at least recognize what you’re cheering for.
By the way, if the US doesn’t secure that oil in Central Asia your lives aren’t going to get worse. Your lives are going to get worse because those of you comfortable with metaphors for fascism will discover that fascism can endlessly change its name and its costume. And it doesn’t heal itself on its own.
And Happy New Year’s to all my friends here.
Villago Delenda Est
The stupid, it burns.
Not surprising considering the nym of the source.
Face
@Bob In Portland: what’s a “Banderite” ?
chopper
@Bob In Portland:
Man, it sucks that your checks are in rubles, doesn’t it.
dan
Sen. Sanders holds some views that are very popular with mainstream Democrats. I am sure that Scalise holds views that are very popular with mainstream Republicans.
Villago Delenda Est
@chopper: BURRRRN!
Villago Delenda Est
@dan:
Such as “exterminate the mud people”.
Mnemosyne
I was unaware that Bernie Sanders has met face-to-face with Vladimir Lenin, who died 15 years before Sanders was born, so it must have been one hell of a trick. This is sort of like the way that “Banderists” are still running Ukraine under Stepan Bandera’s direction even though the guy died in 1959.
shelley
That from a man who will rail about the evils of government intervention. Course it’s all about vaginas. Did he also support vasectomies for male welfare recipients?
Gin & Tonic
@Face: Bob is stuck in the 1940’s. He’s referring to the Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, who was assassinated by the KGB in Munich in 1959. Bandera was leader of one faction of OUN, the Ukrainian Nationalists Organization, sometimes referred to as OUN/B (for Bandera) and sometimes referred to in English as Banderites, but in Russian Banderovtsi and in Ukrainian Banderivtsi.
Those outside Ukraine use this as a derogatory term. Those inside Ukraine view it mostly as a joke.
Gin & Tonic
@Bob In Portland: Hey, Bob, remember last year when you assured me that the blood of Ukrainian Jewry would be on my hands, as mobs torch the synagogues in Kiev?
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Maybe it’s even worse and they are one and the same. OK the writing style is different but their delusions are very similar.
Kyle
@chopper:
Haha, you win the thread.
BobVlad inPortlandMoscow, next time get paid in hard currency.Gin & Tonic
@Kyle: Joke making the rounds in Ukraine:
Q: What’s the best place to hide your cash?
A: In a big pile of rubles.
Bob In Portland
@efgoldman: That’s the Stanford band.
Hal
I still remember a woman being interviewed on TV when Duke was running and she was asked why she was voting for him. This woman says on national TV: “Because he hates ni**ers!” I was dumb founded that someone would say that in front of the entire country. What was hilarious to me was how Duke went around saying he wasn’t that old Klansman any longer, but that was one of his big draws to so many in Louisiana.
JMV Pyro
@efgoldman:
I’ve assumed they’ve been swapping notes for a while now.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I think it’s pretty funny that Bob thinks the U.S. would try to go to war in Ukraine on only $350 million.
Howard Beale IV
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Bob in Portland thinks he’s got it all figured out-he’s probably the poor sot who bought Civeo at $28 only to see it crash to $3.93.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bob In Portland: Bob. have you started an armed resistance yet? Are you really an anti-fascist? Can I join your resistance group?
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: God, I would never drive a tank. I was a Red Leg. We did guns, not tanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Cole did tanks. Some of us had better things to do.
Villago Delenda Est
@efgoldman: You can be a “track commander” in the infantry as well…they’ve got the Bradley MICV (mechanized infantry combat vehicle) they putt around all over battlefields.
I had two tracked vehicles when I was the Battalion Signal Officer of a mech infantry battalion. At times I was a track commander, too.