Politicians adopt racist rhetoric for votes rather than conviction

Evidence

“Well boys,” Wallace said to supporters after the defeat, “no other son-of-a-bitch will ever outnigger me again.” Wallace joined the secret fraternity of ambitious politicians who adopted the popular racist rhetoric that they probably did not believe in private. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 947

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the performative politician whose private beliefs contradict public racism — a profile of Wallace and the ‘secret fraternity’ model as a general phenomenon.
• XREF: connects to: Openly racist nationalist parties draw minimal electoral support at the polls. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 169; Politicians suppress minority turnout and invent threats to mask authoritarianism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1373; Electoral politics incentivize both parties to weaponize anti-Muslim racism for career gain — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 743