Dog Whistles: Strategies of Socially Acceptable Racism in the Modern GOP Praxeum

In this episode, I explore Dog Whistles as a concept, and as a political tactic used by the GOP since the Nixon campaign to court racist voters. There are things we can do to combat these racist tactics, which I discuss at the end of the episode.

Vox on Dog Whistles: 

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/11/7/13549154/dog-whistles-campaign-racism

Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

Reagan's Dog Whistles:
http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/reagans-dog-whistles-worked-trump-missed-that-lesson/

Trump's (many, very loud) Dog Whistles:
http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/reagans-dog-whistles-worked-trump-missed-that-lesson/
https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/apr/26/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/trump-rnc-speech-alone-fix-it/492557/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racial-figle_b_9033224






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