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Righting the Ship The (new) southern strategy, as it is being proposed, is about rebuilding relationships Roger Ailes undermined, and reuniting the citizens he divided. The DNC needs to listen and start planning now.

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Righting the Ship The southern strategy envisioned by Roger Ailes and unveiled to Richard Nixon in the Oval Office that day was never meant to be anything constructive. Dividing and damaging were its primary goals, and at that it has proven quite successful.

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Righting the Ship Roger Ailes and his southern strategy proved a toxic mix in American culture. He ran Fox News like an imperious tyrant. Thankfully, today Roger Ailes is dead, but the legacy of his poison lives on. Nixon loved him; that says it all.

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Righting the Ship The (new )Southern Strategy - Again - There is positively no reason on earth for a Southern man of working class status to embrace the Republican Party. Bar none.

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Righting the Ship The (new) Southern Strategy One more time The DNC needs to write James Carville a big fat check and set up shop in his house tomorrow! The American heart will never let die the American dream.

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Righting the ship. Lastly. Democratic Party, hear me now. The man is from Louisiana. No one knows the south like Carville does. Give him a whip as smart as AOC as watch the fur fly. She's already proven she's got what it takes. Give her an entourage, and all the fine southern bourbon it takes.

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Righting the ship. What to do 2. Under Carville's direction, take the party out on the road. Sit down with southern working class men and explain the southern strategy. Show them where their interests lie. For too long the south has been ignored. Once and for all, flip the southern script.

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Righting the ship. What to do. The Democratic Party must realize it has long been asleep at the switch. Roger Ailes's southern strategy should have never gone unchallenged. Now it must be. Step one. Write James Carville a nice fat check. Lock him in a room with AOC to strategize for a week.

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Righting the ship. Upshot. There is positively no reason on earth for any man of working class status to embrace the Republican Party regardless of where the man calls home. On an active pulsing Wall Street screen he's not even a bright red blip. It saddens me profoundly to watch this usurpation.

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Righting the ship. The understanding. In America today there is no difference between the North and the South, not where the working man is concerned The southern strategy should have never prevailed. If any border truly ranks artificial it is the Mason-Dixon line. A working man is a working man

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Righting the ship. The aftermath. Roger Ailes went on to further acclaim, getting plastered all over billboards as the brunt of a feature film, a film depicting the nature of the man as the sexual predator he was. Sound familiar? If it does, we shouldn't be surprised.

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Righting the ship. The plot realized. Say what you will, Roger Ailes's southern strategy was a brilliant political ploy. As much as I hate the very idea, somewhere Richard Nixon is smiling. He listened to that cocksure young man that day, and now we are paying the price.

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Righting the ship. The plot thickens. Now at Fox News, Roger Ailes, relieved of the Fairness Doctrine, along with a bevy of new AM radio formats, pounded the southern strategy night and day - think Rush Limbaugh and his like. And it worked. Now, after 30 some years, here we are, bedeviled.

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Righting the ship. More background. Ailes's southern strategy was the most cynical in the history of cynicism. Purposefully, pit the South against the North, reinvigorate all that latent resentment. Beguile the southern working class man, largely Democratic, into embracing the Republican Party.

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Righting the ship. Idea # 1. First, some background. At some point during his presidency Richard Nixon one day received a rather rotund, cocksure young man into the Oval Office. A would-be mover and shaker, he would prove truly prophetic as time went on. Roger Ailes had his southern strategy.

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Hello BlueSky, Two years ago I would have told you I was all about good vibes. As it is, good vibes got kicked to the curb by a churlish ogre among us. So how do we go about righting this ship, this ship we know as our country? I have more than a few ideas. Indulge me. Tomorrow, the first.

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