Roling Stone - If you’re a progressive who hasn’t been paying keen attention to the three marquee races in the South this fall, you’re depriving yourself of a daily dose of GOP schadenfreude. In Georgia, Florida and Texas, straight-talking liberals are topping the Democratic tickets for the first time in history — and Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum and Beto O’Rourke are campaigning circles around the race-baiting greed-heads who have dominated Southern politics with no meaningful resistance from feckless Democrats for four long and destructive decades.
Long accustomed to running against white “centrist” patsies still clinging superstitiously to the old Bill Clinton script for winning in Dixie — lay off gun control, talk endlessly about the middle class, tut-tut about abortion, champion the death penalty and pander relentlessly to both corporate interests and aging whites who long ago made the switch to the GOP — the fat-and-happy Republicans have been caught completely off guard by this strange new breed of Democrat.
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