Good luck with that rebranding
by David Atkins
Rep. Don Young says he “meant no disrespect” when he used the term “wetbacks.”
“My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes,” Young, an Alaska Republican, told a local radio station in a story posted Thursday. “It takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It’s all done by machine.”
Much as Republicans may want to rebrand, this sort of thing is going to keep happening. It’s coded into Republican DNA.
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