"... Walker concedes nothing to the conventional wisdom about what the GOP must do to compete in a more culturally tolerant, ethnically diverse and economically insecure America. And the GOP faithful love it.
It starts with ethnicity and race. Since 2012, many prominent Republicans have made overtures to African Americans and Latinos....
Not Walker. His speech in Iowa not only slammed President Obama’s executive action legalizing some undocumented immigrants. It didn’t even include the love-letter to legal immigrants that Republicans typically use to shield themselves from charges of being anti-Hispanic. In addition, Walker said nothing about reaching out to African Americans and boasted about Wisconsin’s voter-ID law,which many African Americans and Latinos see as means of reducing their turnout. Even the imagery on Walker’s website stands out.....In the video for Walker’s new PAC..the opening faces are relentlessly white. You don’t encounter an African-American until roughly halfway through. And unlike Jeb’s website,Walker’s isn’t translated into Spanish.
As Alec MacGillis explained in an excellent New Republic profile last summer, greater Milwaukee exists in a kind of political time warp. Because its African-American population arrived later than in other northern cities and because its white population fled to the suburbs later, the racially-tinged, suburban-versus-urban politics that have faded in New York,Chicago and Philadelphia remain strong in Wisconsin. When running for governor, Walker even said,“We don’t want Wisconsin to become like Milwaukee.”....
Walker’s having none of it. His message is simple and old-fashioned: “Take control from the federal government and big-government special interests and give it back to hard-working taxpayers.”..he actually asserted that the United States is “one of the few places left in the world where it doesn’t matter what class you were born into,it doesn’t matter what your parents did for a living. In America,the opportunity is equal for each and every one of us.”..
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