The problem with Jonathan Chait's brief complaint by the "conservative" whitewashing of Jesse Helms' bigotry is if it were for the racism he spewed, he would NEVER have been elected to the United Senate in the first place.
It was racism that got him there, and it was the Republican Party's acceptance of Helms' racism for which he will be largely remembered.
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