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181 | Kyle Strickland: 20th Century Racial Liberalism’s Reached a Dead End. What’s Next?

The Realignment

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What Do You Mean by Democracy?

Kal, my interpretation of a democratic republic is that you have a pilibuster because a pilibusters protects the s of a minority. So i think there there is this fundamental idea around what does it mean democracy exactly, and for who? Right? What we're seeing though is a weaponization of these institutional mechanisms and procedure les that is fundamentally put in place minority rule in place of majority rule. And that's why democracy is at stake. Kal: We can't talk about our democracy without understanding the notion that  the vast majority of voting rights act an or right to vote has been mostly a white, wealthy and male,. Protestantians, as the purveyors ofrule

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