"For this time, as they surely know, Reconstruction will not be on their terms. They have no agenda because the country they live in is a refutation of their core identity. So race fuels this – perhaps not explicitly or even consciously for some, but surely powerfully for many. And we are reaching a perilous moment as their defeat nears. After that, the rage could become truly destabilizing, unless some kind of establishment Republican leadership can learn to lead again. Until then, we have the miserable picture of John Boehner, a man who in years to come may well be seen as the most pathetic excuse for a Speaker in decades."
Posted on: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:12:55 +0000
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