{"id":181007,"date":"2016-10-28T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/28\/explicitly-admitting-what-has-been-the-republican-campaign-strategy-since-ronald-reagan\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T01:46:00","slug":"explicitly-admitting-what-has-been-the-republican-campaign-strategy-since-ronald-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/28\/explicitly-admitting-what-has-been-the-republican-campaign-strategy-since-ronald-reagan\/","title":{"rendered":"Explicitly Admitting What Has Been the Republican Campaign Strategy since Ronald Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Campaign has admitted that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-10-27\/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go\">actively engaging in voter suppression efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is no surprise.&nbsp; When Reagan launched his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi talking about states rights, the subtext was always that, &#8220;N*****s should not be allowed to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">To compensate for this, Trump\u2019s campaign has devised another strategy, which, not surprisingly, is negative. Instead of expanding the electorate, Bannon and his team are trying to shrink it. \u201c<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">We have three major voter suppression operations under way<\/span><\/b>,\u201d says a senior official. They\u2019re aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans. Trump\u2019s invocation at the debate of Clinton\u2019s WikiLeaks e-mails and support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership was designed to turn off Sanders supporters. The parade of women who say they were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and harassed or threatened by Hillary is meant to undermine her appeal to young women. And her 1996 suggestion that some African American males are \u201csuper predators\u201d is the basis of a below-the-radar effort to discourage infrequent black voters from showing up at the polls\u2014particularly in Florida.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump Campaign has admitted that they are actively engaging in voter suppression efforts. This is no surprise.&nbsp; When Reagan launched his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi talking about states rights, the subtext was always that, &#8220;N*****s should not be allowed to vote. Here is the money quote: To compensate for this, Trump\u2019s campaign has devised &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-181007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}