the way Republicans brag about being the party of dismantling racism in the 1800s is like me bragging about how Yankees have 27 rings. OK if you knew how to do that 100 years ago isn't it even more embarrassing that you don't do it anymore
Every few months some prominent Republican pretends it's some long buried secret that Republicans won the vast majority of Black voters in the late nineteenth century, and acts like they've discovered something brand new that it is going to reshape contemporary politics.