you know this strategy that's being played out by the Republicans the strategy of activating and and trying to increase Republican turnout among the white racist base that Donald Trump is speaking to so well is not a new strategy Lee Atwater back in in I think it was 198 yeah it was 1981 now the southern strategy was started in the late 60s early 70s by Richard Nixon let's let's reach out to the white racist voters that lynon Johnson kicked to the curb in' 65 66 67 with the Civil Rights Act the Voting Rights Act Etc so let's reach out to those people the southern strategy and Atwater updated it for the Reagan Revolution and this is Lee Atwater talking to a group of Republican activists and talking about how he was going to use race without using words that sound racist and he points out that you know back in the 40s and 50s you could use the n-word and then in the 60s and 70s you could say Force busing and it meant the same thing people knew you were talking about race white bigots in the south in particular knew you were talking about race although they're not limited to the South and then and and then you know as we came into the Reagan Era Reagan was going to be talking about cutting things like welfare find that Welfare Queen and cut her off and and he said you know we know cutting cutting cutting government programs that help people is going to hurt black people more than white people because they're more dependent on on government programs because of 400 years of slavery and institutional racism and so all the white racists will get it immediately even if the news reporters don't and nobody can accuse us of being racist if we simply say we're going to cut this we're going to cut that but every but the the racist they know exactly what we're talking about here is Lee Atwater uh laying out his strategy I would approach that issue as a as a statistician or political s or no as a psychologist which I'm not is is how abstract you handle the race other words you start out and now yall AR quoting me this is how how abstract you handle the race thing you got that okay so you start out you start out in 1954 by saying by 1968 you can't say that hurts your backfire so you say stuff like force busing states rights and all that stuff and you're getting so abstract now you're talking about cutting taxes and all of these things you're talking about are totally economic things and the byproduct ofum is blacks get hurt worse than white you got that these are all totally economic things but the byproduct of them is is that blacks get hurt worse than whites so he's talking about making racism an abstraction so that the Republicans cannot be called out on it he continues you start out in 1954 by saying oh hang on just 1968 you can't say here's where it subconsciously maybe that is part of it I'm not saying that but I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract and that coded uh that that we we're doing the way and subconsciously maybe that is part of it I'm not saying that but I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract and that coded uh that we we're doing away with the racial problem one way or the other you follow me cuz obviously sitting around saying in in other words let me let me just pardon me I haven't used this program in a while and I hit the wrong button but you know basically what he's saying is we want to do away with the racial problem in other words we Republicans want to be able to be racists without talking like George Wallace right so but we want Wallace's voters we want those dixie crats we want those white racist in the South we want to cut taxes we want so so this is where he continues cuz obviously sitting around saying we want to cut taxes we want to cut this and we want is much more abstract than even the busing thing uh and a hell of a lot more abstract there you go hell of a lot more abstract than NW NW right this this and you know I mean he's just like saying okay this this is it and of course you know what he was trying to avoid was this I draw the line in the dust and Toss The Gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation now segregation tomorrow and segregation forever George Wallace it was just a few years earlier right uh so this this this is what we are seeing here now and uh I I just I'm horrified by it I don't know how to say it beyond that to watch more clips from our programs hit the watch more videos button over here and please be sure to hit the handy dandy subscribe button so you'll always be up to date tag you're it