I don’t believe “zero sum politics” holds America back as much as “drained pool politics” does. White 🇺🇸 would knowingly rather give up a benefit than share it w/black folks.This is why we will never be Denmark. I’ve always felt that Ms McGee put it in words

that 'belief' was the result of deliberate strategy by southern state republicans in a revival of Jim Crow efforts against Reconstruction, using tools already in place from that past insurrection, like the legislative filibuster, and gerrymandering to dilute outcomes for blacks.

I just want to say I got my copy & although I know it will take me a min to get through bc of my schedule I have no doubt I will learn so much from it!

I think the origin story and the evolution of the Zero Sum Big Lie is the crucial missing piece of American history that demands telling. Please focus on this and go deep.. The myth must be smashed to stop White Supremacy in America.

So it was white america abandoning the democratic party and not the democratic party completely selling out any semblance of a labor movement that led to ever increasing inequality? Spoken like a true clueless Milton Academy and Yale alumnus turned Demos party hack.