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Yeah I think this is right. The southern strategy was explicitly racist, that would appear to be recognizing the appearance of a wolf.

If then decades later subsequent generations of Republican politicians had definitively broken with this, renounced and apologized for it, undertaken steps of racial reconciliation at political cost to themselves, and were still being called “racist,” that would be crying wolf.

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