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I am sure the white supremacists who attended the 1998 rally would be shocked to learn that 25 years later, the governor, attorney general, treasurer, and speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates are African Americans.
There are MAGA Republicans who just will not admit that Trump lost. They remind me of those southerners who refused to believe that the South had lost the Civil War and whose rallying cry was, “The South will rise again.”
Every election year more votes are cast for the offices at the top of the ballot than for those at the bottom, sometimes by tens of thousands of votes. These “drop off” voters often tell me they don’t know what the elected offices at the bottom of the ballot do or why they should care about voting for them.
Many Americans are unaware that the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington occurred on the anniversary of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till. At that rally Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.