Larson

By David Larson

Carolina Journal

In order for the good and sane to prevail in your own tribe, it’s necessary to police the borders of that tribe and, at times, defenestrate those on the fringes to make clear to the wider society that “they are not with us.”

In 1992, the Democrats had their “Sister Souljah moment,” when then-presidential-hopeful Bill Clinton criticized a hip-hop artist who said it would be “wise” for Black gang members to take a day to kill white people. Clinton’s words were seen as a signal to centrists that normal Democrats do not support such things. Notably, the Democrats largely failed to do the same in 2020 during the worst riots in the county’s history and amid calls to “defund the police.”

Republicans made a similar move in the 1960s and ’70s, when conse

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