Because liberals are so mean

[dajoki]

Nikki Haley reveals how Republicans will absolve themselves of Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/12/nikki-haley-reveals-how-republicans-will-absolve-themselves-trump/tv

Many Republicans fear that when President Trump is gone, there will be some kind of moral reckoning for their party, not just for what they did to directly support him but for everything they have become. But they have an answer: Don’t blame us, they’ll say. Liberals made us do it.

This is the message of a truly remarkable op-ed in The Post on Thursday written by former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, who also served as Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations. In it, Haley pushes back against criticism she got for a recent interview in which she recalled how as governor she led the successful effort to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state house after white-supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine African Americans in a church in Charleston.

What got people so mad was Haley’s comment that Roof “hijacked everything that people thought of” about the Confederate flag, where instead of standing for “service, sacrifice, and heritage,” it became something ugly that could no longer be tolerated. In 2015

But now Haley is deeply concerned. In fact, she says, if the same controversy happened today, the Confederate flag — the banner of the treason launched against the United States to preserve slavery, the flag the white South Carolina government put up in 1962 as a symbol of defiance against the civil rights movement — would never have come down. Why? Because liberals are so mean

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But now Haley argues that her fellow Republicans, with their benevolent and warm-hearted view of the Confederate flag, are so sensitive that criticism from liberals will cause them to embrace positions they shouldn’t. This is something we’ve been hearing since the beginning of the Trump presidency, echoed in the words of every domestic abuser: Look what you made us do.

[maxsolomon]

1. We don't call them Reactionairies for nothing.

They live in fear and resentment.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Before Dylan Roof - from the time of LBJ.

Before Dylan Roof - from the time of LBJ.

Symbol of the White race and White supremacy.

[The Genealogist]

3. Something doesn't make sense about Republican/RW rhetoric

We're ivory tower snowflake east coast elitist pantywaists, but we're also so cruel and powerful that we MAKE wingnuts embrace scary crap to protect themselves?