At Crooked Timber, John Holbo offers up a jaw-dropper:
Jonah Goldberg : “If the GOP
wants to win more black votes, it will need to get a lot more
‘racist.’” Yes, if there’s one thing black voters are waiting for, that
might bring them back into the warm embrace of the GOP, it’s the enticing prospect of attending an endless pity party with a ‘liberals – and blacks! – have wrongly accused the GOP of racism’ theme. (Because, after all, the Davis-Bacon Act was totally racist!) But Charles Murray gave Goldberg a run for his money, in the anti-Dale Carnegie sweepstakes, with his hypothesis
that the reason Asians don’t flock to the Republican Party is that, as a
group, they have a ‘ludicrously inaccurate’ view of … well, of
political reality.
Goldberg and Murray – and others I could mention – are casting about for a way for the GOP
to win over minorities without saying ‘sorry’. Indeed, they are looking
for a way to win over minorities while saying ‘you’re welcome!’ in an
aggrieved, long-suffering sort of way (this white man’s burden hasn’t
been lifting itself, y’know!...
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