I said two posts ago:

the leftist arguments that the Republicans are racist basically boil down to the fact that Nixon didn't seriously try to distance himself from Barry Goldwater, and didn't tell Strom Thurmond to go fuck himself.

The 1964 election was basically a contest between two overt racists, and it's just that one was more clever (Lyndon B).

Rockefeller was right that Goldwater would ruin the Republican party, but the problem was he was the wrong voice to say it, being too much of a progressive.

It can't be addressed head on because it's ultimately not about race to the SJWs. They're just trying to use race as a stand-in for their Marxist class war.

sometimes I wonder why he just didn’t like get a photo of him at rainbow push collation meetings arm in arm with Jesse Jackson

Why?

BECAUSE IT'S DIMWITTED BULLSHIT.

That which is asserted without evidence can be ignored without comment.

You do not dignify bullshit accusations by responding to them. The mere fact that you're responding means you're already on the back foot, playing defense. You ignore the loud morons and do your thing, because you're not going to persuade them.

The only PROBLEM the GOP has is that its actions since Reagan have not spoken very loudly. It was a mistake to elevate the Bush family. It was a mistake to make Jack Kemp the architect of twenty years of GOP policy. It was a mistake to go after Clinton for being a sex hound. It was a mistake to start two fucking ground wars in countries we've been bombing for decades to no effect.

In a universe where the GOP had listened to the message Ross Perot and Pat Buchannan were pitching, we wouldn't be in this mess today.

Imagine a world where the GOP had run Colin Powell in 1996. Would he have lost? Yeah, nobody was going to beat Clinton in 1996. But imagine how much different that world would have been.

republicans need to specifically address their past racism

What past racism?

The GOP was the party that opposed slavery, supported integrating the army, and supported integrating schools. It wasn't Kennedy and Johnson that integrated schools, it was Eisenhower.

Like, all the leftist arguments that the Republicans are racist basically boil down to the fact that Nixon didn't seriously try to distance himself from Barry Goldwater, and didn't tell Strom Thurmond to go fuck himself.

And why? Because he was kinda busy trying to salvage an asian war he inherited from the Democrats.