‘The hood is off’: Virginia Republican steps onto America’s most obvious rhetorical landmine
Some dog whistles are subtle frequencies only specialists can hear, while others are more like an airhorn.
American politics continues its long-running experiment in seeing whether public figures can pretend not to understand obvious racial subtext, with Rep. Jen Kiggans now facing backlash after nodding along to a phrase that arrived trailing several centuries of historical freight.
Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), already one of the GOP’s most vulnerable incumbents…
