I’m denying that this was a significant force in American politics until the latter half of Obama’s presidency. These people existed; they were not influential.
> McConnell tried to spin all of that “one term president” talk as solely about policy but all of the context made it quite clear that they wouldn’t have been so motivated for, say, Kerry.
What context are you referring to? Would you attribute black Republicans like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell to political tokenism intended to appeal to black voters? I know that the prevailing sentiment (among the media I consumed back then, anyways) was that George Bush was a racist who hated black and brown people, but looking back, I just don’t see it. That element of American society doesn’t look influential until the late 2010s and early 2020s when Thiel started buying his way in, and by that point it’s an entirely different cohort.
I’m denying that this was a significant force in American politics until the latter half of Obama’s presidency. These people existed; they were not influential.
> McConnell tried to spin all of that “one term president” talk as solely about policy but all of the context made it quite clear that they wouldn’t have been so motivated for, say, Kerry.
What context are you referring to? Would you attribute black Republicans like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell to political tokenism intended to appeal to black voters? I know that the prevailing sentiment (among the media I consumed back then, anyways) was that George Bush was a racist who hated black and brown people, but looking back, I just don’t see it. That element of American society doesn’t look influential until the late 2010s and early 2020s when Thiel started buying his way in, and by that point it’s an entirely different cohort.