It is possible that Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman is totally insane. But, if he wasn’t writing this stuff, someone else would have to do it because it is an integral and necessary component of the conservative strategy. First, let’s look at what Klayman is saying. He’s arguing that President Obama wants to turn conservatives into “the new niggers.” He says that the president’s effort to add revenue to the government’s coffers is his way of seeking reparations for slavery. He says that Obama’s reelection was fraudulent. He says that Obama hates white people despite being half-white himself. He says that the president has “provoked [a] burgeoning race war.” And then there is this:
Put Obama’s Muslim identification, his anti-Semitism and his pounding of rich whites together and you have a certified, and highly dangerous Black Muslim in The White House – ala (pun intended) Malcolm X, Elijah Mohammed and Louis Farrakhan.
Most of this kind of crazy talk has died down now that the election is over. This is because these ideas were disseminated to maximize the racial polarization of the country so that the Republicans could increase their share of the white vote rather than compete for votes among non-whites.
Keep this in mind when you see Newt Gingrich say, “No Republican pollster thought you could get 87 percent turnout in Milwaukee.”
Keep it in mind whenever you hear a Republican admit that they didn’t think blacks would vote in the same numbers they did in 2008. Their strategy depended first on decreased black participation and, second, on a greater share of the white vote, with both working in concert to overcome McCain’s deficit. They succeeded in the latter but failed in the former because the racial polarization they stoked riled up the blacks just as much as the whites. It didn’t help that the courts struck down one voter suppression scheme after another.
So, why is Larry Klayman writing crazy paranoid racist shit? Maybe it’s because he crazy and paranoid and racist. Maybe it’s just his role in this strategy.
They thought the country would reward them for all their talk about birth certificates and Islam and the president hating whitey. Instead, the country treated them like wannabe Donald Trumps. And that’s when they woke up and freaked out and realized that the old America where being a racist asshole was a winning game had passed them by.
But, they’ll keep trying. The alternative is unthinkable.
