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But the economy is not all; the GOP’s last best hope remains identity
politics. In a year when the Democrats have an African American
presidential nominee, the Republicans now more than ever are
the white folks’ party, the party that delays the advent of our
multicultural future, the party of the American past. Republican
conventions have long been bastions of de facto Caucasian
exclusivity, but coming right after the diversity of Denver,
this year’s GOP convention is almost shockingly—
un-Americanly—white. Long term, this whiteness is a huge
problem. This year, however, whiteness is the only way Republicans
cling to power. If the election is about the economy, they’re cooked—
and their silence this week on nearly all things economic means that
they know it.
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