The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

As the Jim Crow era opened, the Supreme Court essentially eliminated the Bill of Rights.  The change wasn't really aimed at white southerners.  In practical ways, the white folk still applied the rights to themselves.  They weren't against rights.  They were just against black people having rights.  The Bill of Rights had to go.

In the same sort of backwards racist way, the January 6th capitol insurrectionists were't particularly against democracy.  They were just against a democracy with a majority made up of minorities, who could vote to put a major dent in the supposed white superiority.  Oh, for Trump himself and his enablers it might have been about power, but if you look a bit beneath the surface the rioters were from white superiority organizations.  It was about keeping a president who had racist leanings in power.  It was about the southern strategy going violent.

Democracy wasn't so much at risk as racism was.  Of course, I would favor democracy and abhor racism.  I'd abhor elitism as well.  The arrow of progress was pretty clear.