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In reply to the discussion: Chris Matthews defends attack on Priebus: GOP 'dividing country along racial lines' [View all]calimary
(81,243 posts)It's hard to admit but that's the basis of it. They're outraged that there's a black man in the Oval Office and he isn't the janitor.
And I think some of them may have thought they could deal with it. I think some of them thought - "well, it can't be that bad, can it?" Those would be the last vestiges of the "I'm really not THAT racist. No really!" crowd. And some of them figured they could probably deal with it if they just closed their eyes and ears and pretend Obama - PRESIDENT Obama, no less - didn't exist. But then they woke up the next morning. And the morning after that. And the morning after that. And I suspect that soon it dawned on them that this WASN'T some bad dream or something they could ignore and pretend didn't exist. And it started to bother them. It started to bother them far more than they expected, because of course EVERYBODY knows it's not supposed to be that way - the president is always supposed to be a white guy, isn't he? Because whites rule, don't they? And I think it began to bother some of them so badly that they started acting out - throwing the Sore Loserman tantrums in public that soon enough became the teabagger movement. I think it just GOT to them after awhile and a few too many of them simply snapped. And the results are what we've all had to live with, live through, AND live DOWN for far too long.