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Americans who were persuaded by the racial fear tactics of Bush and Helms constitute a potentially receptive audience for Duke's less restrained and more virulent attacks against minorities...
...just racists and right-wing Republicans who are to blame for Duke's ascension to the threshold of political power. Liberals who should be rising in opposition to this kind of hatred have been markedly apathetic in the past few weeks...
FIRST, LIBERALS MAY see a David Duke victory as a politically advantageous event in the context of next year's presidential race. A Republican Klansman in office is the stuff of some liberals' dreams. Such a victory, the thinking goes, would mobilize mass support for a Democratic candidate who would attack George Bush and his G.O.P. as racist and out of touch with American values...
George Bush, realizing how damaging Duke's success could be for his image in the upcoming election, has tried to distance both himself and the party from the Louisiana candidate...
...David Duke doesn't actually need to win the election for liberals to achieve this end. The fact that Duke is a racist Republican who could be the Governor of Louisiana is reason enough for Democrats to mobilize national support against Duke in this Saturday's election...