If you were of political age during the first Clinton term, then you've seen what's about to happen before. After Clinton's election we started to see articles in the major papers about "Angry White Men." The idea was that, in Clinton, minorities finally had a voice in the White House and that White folks were pissed off about it... left to you was the reponsibility of filling in the "why"... which was, of course racism.
Right-wing "Militias" became the new boogeyman and overzealous government agents faned out into the heartland looking for domestic terrorists to bring down.
Well here we are again... I see Frank Rich has a piece that Drudge has linked to alleging that, once again, Angry White Men see their place in society slipping and so racism-feuled domestic terror has to be on our horizon... expect Ruby Ridge-like raids to be a part of our near-future.
What's amusing is that they seem to think this is a brand new narrative. It isn't. We've all seen it before... it's just that some of us are better at remembering it.
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It will get worse leading up to the election in November. If the election results are anything like 1994, expect to see serious anchormen saying things like the American electorate, lead by angry white men and tea baggers, have thrown a hissy fit and kicked the Democrats out of power. The narrative being that the they couldn't rationally get rid of the Democrats because they don't like the policies, it must be that they're racist or childlike and can't be trusted to make good decisions.
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