Donald Trump's latest racist troll: Exploiting Muhammad Ali to attack contemporary activists

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5. Democrats need to make the following point every chance they get:

Trump didn't invent this tactic. Last year, I called it the "dead progressive" strategy, and it's been used by conservatives for decades, if not longer. The argument, sometimes explicit and sometimes more coded, is that progressive activists of the past were working on real issues, but those today are a bunch of entitled whiners who are supposedly betraying the hard work of those who came before. It allows reactionaries to paint themselves as reasonable people with humanitarian values, without actually have to embrace either reason or humanity.

The author is exactly right, and this tactic has proven effective. Democrats, in social media and when they go on the air, need to do all they can to undermine what is truly a grotesque tactic.