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...basic problem is deeper--and perhaps more worrisome than Duke alone. The basic problem is the American version of the nationalistic turmoil dominating global politics since the Cold War's end. It's the American version of the internal conflicts plaguing the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...
Unlike the current struggles in those regions, however, the American version isn't about distinct ethnicities with different languages and cultures fighting for extrication from a contrived union. It's not even about Black versus white. The Duke phenomenon and the politics surrounding it go beyond limited debates about racism in Louisiana. In the U.S., the struggles are about getting elected...
...DUKE REPRESENTS only the extreme end of a change in American politics that began with the initial ease of U.S.-Soviet tensions. Just as the independence-hungry nationalists of Eastern Europe were invigorated when they stopped worrying about a nuclear attack from the West, America's own nationalists got a lift...
...David Dukes will fill the political vacuum. Duke carries a banner bashing "tax-'n'-spend" liberals, "Big Government" and affirmative action. He calls on welfare recipients "to work for their welfare checks." He laments that "there is no room in the jails." And he wraps himself in the rhetoric of the working middle class...
...today's political discourse. (Obviously such ideas did not begin with the end of the Cold War, but for years Democrats felt that the only way to win popular support for that war was to beef up social programs. Now that rationale has disappeared.) Less extreme versions of Duke--those without the racism stigma, that is--are winning support all over...