If neither party runs an out in the open racist for president

[Uponthegears]

3. Wishful thinking

The so-called Reagan Democrats, those $70k/year suburbanites who put Tripe in the White House and who have allowed EVERY OTHER REPUBLICAN who has crossed its threshold from Reagan forward to soil its halls HAVE ALWAYS VOTED on the basis of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, misogynists, and/or homophobia.

Just because it's been coded as "self-defense" or "welfare reform" or "minimum mandatory sentences" or "religious rights" or "family values" or "right to work" doesn't change the fact that THEY know what thone words means and those of us who paid for it know what those words mean.

We should have called them what they are when they voted for Reagan instead of trying to win them back.