The good news, such as it is, is that the mainstream, nonpartisan political press has been willing to call out these specific campaigns as racist, with no weasel words or qualifiers. It has played a major role in the racist campaign against Antonio Delgado, the Democratic challenger to Rep. John Faso of New York’s 19th District. But another, possibly overlooked explanation for the utter inability of the press to describe the current moment is simply denial. A corollary to this belief is that white rural Americans are the Realest Americans, and hence, the Goodest. Pundit Americana requires the Realest Americans to be a people of rough-hewn racial innocence, perhaps reflecting the pundits’ own blamelessness.

Source: Huffington Post November 06, 2018 17:15 UTC