Word: klansman
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...David Duke? As a Klansman, he made hateful attacks against Blacks, Jews and Catholics. He denied that the Holocaust ever happened. And since his days under the white hood, he has been a consistent opponent of civil rights for minorities...
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...
While many political analysts have focused on Louisiana (where David Duke, the racist former Klansman, is locked in a tight race for Governor), the White House has been worrying about Pennsylvania. "Win or lose, there are 1 1/2 crucial things to learn from Wofford," says a senior Bush adviser. "The half is about how a sagging economy can be played to advantage by Democrats and about how easily a candidate perceived as an outsider can play the desire-for- change theme against an insider. The more important signal involves the sudden saliency of the health-care issue...
...years of stalling, his top aides had finally worked out a civil rights compromise with Congress -- and none too soon. Bush hardly relished the prospect of vetoing a civil rights bill in the same fortnight that the Senate nearly disintegrated over the Clarence Thomas nomination and an ex-Klansman named David Duke became the Republican Party candidate in Louisiana's gubernatorial runoff...
...frustrations about welfare and affirmative action, violent crime and failing schools, lost jobs and a stagnant economy that resonate broadly throughout the country. His rise is anathema to the national Republican leadership, which strongly repudiates him but now finds many of its most effective themes tainted by the ex-Klansman's use of them. In the 1992 presidential campaign, George Bush may find it dangerous to blast affirmative action and racial quotas -- much less run Willie Horton-style ads -- now that Duke has catapulted to national prominence under a Republican banner...