Do not buy into the whole dog whistle thing. Ultimately, it's just a way for the left to take any benign statement in the most sterile context and turn it into the defect nword.

1.) Trump's polling in the low 30s with African Americans. That's historic in the modern era and could be the foundations of an electoral landslide in 2020 and we saw the beginnings of this in 2016 when he outperformed every ecpectation among blacks and Hispanics. Minority unemployment is at historic lows and black sb ownership is up 400% that's not a typo. Why would they want to monkey that up?

2.) John McCain valiantly accepted this premise and aggressively derided anyone who even mentioned Obama's middle name, let alone criticized him. His reward? He got called George Wallace (Democrat.) Mitt Romney was called racist for adopting a black child!!!! There is no logical solution to a deranged tactic.

3.) We are supposed to believe that using a benign phrase is the dark mantle of racism, but me. Gollum and his ilk have no problem glomming onto the party that seceded to preserve slavery wrote Jim Crow laws practiced segregation and ignored the 13th-15th amendments through a policy of nullification? The rehab job on LBJ alone should let anyone with half an open mind know this is a farce.

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