See that guy sitting down on the right? It's "Big Bill" France, NASCAR founder and storied segregationist. See the guy on the left? It's George Wallace. 'Nuff said, right?
Well, maybe not. Because yesterday, Brian France, current head of NASCAR and grandson of "Big Bill," endorsed Donald Trump. How appropriate — like grandfather, like grandson, throwing his weight behind the bigot.
It's ridiculous that the passengers in the GOP clown car and their inside-the-Beltway enablers have expressed such shock that Trump would ineptly fail to repudiate the support of white supremacists like David Duke, et. al. Because since 1972, when this photo was taken — indeed, even a few years before then — the Republican Party of Richard Nixon and everyone who followed him (with the possible exception of Gerald Ford) pandered to the people-of-color-hating NASCAR vote. Why are they surprised at the bed they now have to lie in? They made it.
We cats are waiting for pundits to start predicting that Trump will be successful in attracting the aggrieved votes of low-income white people and that that will make him competitive in the fall. In our view, two points: We first have to see what the GOP will do about this unholy mess in which they've landed themselves. We also have to believe that the general electorate will refuse to reward a hater and a xenophobe come November. But it'll all come down to the math, won't it? We cats PURR.
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