A History of Liberal White Racism, Cont.

[AverageJoe90]

3. Thought provoking? More like a bunch of revisionist agitprop.

As I totally correctly pointed out in the other thread: Ted Bilbo was no genuine liberal/progressive. Not even close. He was, in fact, an extreme right-wing faux-populist; he was merely taking advantage of the surge in progressivism's popularity by latching himself onto a certain few causes, and talking a likable game(even supposedly fooling Roosevelt at one point). But deep down, he was always a reactionary, but merely an opprotunistic one. And you know what? There's guys just like that today; one of the greatest examples of such would be Rand Paul. Paul claims to be against the drug wars, and even pays lip service to anger against bankers on Wall Street.....(and sadly, some people actually have fallen for his schtick.) By the logic utilized by Coates and Katznelson here, Paul, too, according to that, is a progressive liberal.

But in reality, he's not. Neither was Ted Bilbo, and anyone who believes otherwise is frankly either naive, or even deluded.