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Michael Steel's initial tenure at head of the RNC has made for some good comedy. See this video. Or this one. Or these remixes of Michelle Bachmann exhorting Steele to "be da man!" And Andrew Golis's smart twitter observation (cadged, he says, from a colleague) that Steele is acting like "a black man imagining a white man imagining a black man," still holds. But fundamentally, I agree with Ta-Nehisi that there's something sad about the whole scene. He writes:
But I don't actually want the GOP's first major effort at ending the Southern Strategy to be a comic disaster. I've never thought that it was good thing for the country, or for black people, to have all of us on one side. This could get ugly really, really fast.I hope it's not too meta to simply say "word."
