It is entirely possible that Republican politicians aren’t racist. It is not reasonable to believe that most white people are not. But just like the slaveholding declarers of independence and the white nationalists who started an uncivil race war and the Reconstruction-era terrorists and the white women who advocated for the necessity of lynching and the segregationists and the mass incarcerators and the vote suppressors and the election-denying insurrectionists who just wanted to make America great again, they will deny that white supremacy is their ultimate goal. But their votes show it. The
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