• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Because he knew he needed to get the “I’m not racist, but I just don’t know if America is ready for a black president” racist twits to vote for him, and he knew that picking up an old white guy with a history of saying “These segregationists have a point” was the way to do that.

    The pundits called it folksy blue collar charm.