Daily Jot: Racism vs Socialism
This is the account of Associated Press summing up the past few days of political demagoguery: “In the process, they have created a fraught political frame: “racists” vs. “socialists.” Trump’s aggressive condemnation of women of color in Congress has allowed House Democrats to mend, for now, their own political divisions as they put the president on record with a resolution condemning his words as racist. But by pushing the House majority into the arms of the squad of liberal freshman women, Trump also adds to his narrative that Democrats have a “socialist” agenda, a story line he started to bring into focus during his State of the Union address.” Trouble is, this narrative is seeded in a tremendously flawed assumption.