Un Cajun à la Maison Blanche en 2020? Mitch Landrieu y songerait

J'ai plusieurs fois mentionné le nom du maire de la Nouvelle-Orléans dans des entrées de mon carnet web par le passé, principalement au moment où il procédait au retrait de monuments confédérés. Mitch Landrieu profite de la promotion de son livre pour se faire connaître en dehors de la Louisiane et plusieurs observateurs croient qu'il pourrait bien être une alternative à Donald Trump dans certains bastions dus sud et du centre du pays.

 "But Landrieu’s big mission, and one that he said he doesn’t need to run for president to pursue, is making people confront racism — their own and the country’s. That starts with Trump but goes much deeper, he said. Everything that America is going through now, he said, Louisiana has seen already.

“We can recognize it more clearly, and we hear dog whistles more acutely. I was trying to wake the country up to the fact this is not new,” Landrieu said.

 In the book, Landrieu traces Duke’s rise through state politics in the 1980s and 1990s — the two served alongside one another in the statehouse in Baton Rouge. Landrieu writes that Duke advanced by tapping into economic anxiety and got a pass on his racism from other Republicans who “saw him as a slick operator of calculated expediency, but very few wanted to speak out against him.”

The former Klansman, Landrieu writes, was regularly undercutting facts in an early version of “fake news!” A passage from a newsletter from Duke’s National Association for the Advancement of White People, Landrieu writes, “sounded a whole lot like ‘Make America Great Again.’”

 “It seems so benign, but the word again gave the line its punch. Again fills African-Americans with dread. Exactly when were we great before? What are we going back to? And by the way, your great wasn’t so great for me,” Landrieu writes."

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/21/mitch-landrieu-2020-democrats-473648