Dog whistling past Dixie: Republicans are in over their heads playing the Kamala Harris race card

Dog whistling past Dixie: Republicans are in over their heads playing the Kamala Harris race card
The attempts to disqualify the vice president reek of desperation

By Dennis Aftergut
Published August 3, 2024 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Donald Trump just made it official, in case you had doubts: The GOP is the party of racism, whether reverse-spun, dog-whistled or broadcast without guise.

On Wednesday, in comments the White House called “repulsive,” Trump said of presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, “all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a Black person.” He made the comments in a room of Black journalists.

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Politico reported earlier this week that Rep. Mike Garcia, R-CA, had “harsh words” to describe Harris: “She’s not very intelligent, she’s not very well-spoken.” Calling Garcia’s words “harsh” misses the racial venom in Garcia’s words. He might as well have said she comes for “the inner city.”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., warned his members last week that the racial dog whistle won’t hunt. It apparently won’t heel either. .................(more)

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