The Greatest Act of Incivility in American Politics Is Accurately Describing a Conservative’s Views
A play in three acts:
The crank's piece is all written in ventriloquist's tense — "I'm not saying *I* fear the immigrant hordes, but many Americans do and they must be taken seriously" — but it's hard to read as arguing anything but "it's reasonable to fear the Latins are replacing whites" pic.twitter.com/DgW9X29flU— Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) August 14, 2019
He was Just Asking Questions about the effect that declining white birthrates would on “civilizational self-confidence!”
Of course, this is a familiar move, one you may also remember from the Roberts and Alito opinions dismantling the Voting Rights Act. “Racism is an extremely serious charge, but no prominent Republican politician was personally involved in the plot to kill Medgar Evers, so the charges are therefore baseless CHECKMATE LIBS.”