The cancel of Trent. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)

NOTHING, WITH THE EXCEPTION of Trent Lott's racism, should he taken at face value in the controversy that began with Lott's disastrous stroll down a whites-only memory lane. His conservative critics have been frying other fish. And many Capitol Hill liberals, though they wouldn't say so out loud, were hoping against hope that a wounded Trent could hang on for a while longer.

Movement conservatives never thought Lott one of their own, so their attacks on him were intended chiefly to put a more able and reliable conservative in charge of the Senate--and to salvage those parts ...

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