Posted on 04/13/2023 1:51:50 PM PDT by Twotone
Sen. Tim Scott’s (R-SC) run for president should sharpen voter focus on Democratic racism. Scott is black and a conservative, two categories that the horrified Left believes cannot or must not overlap.
Democrats hurl the insults “racism” and “racist” at conservatives and their policies. It’s their weapon of choice in political argument, and they reach lazily for it whether they’re debating fiscal policy, medical outcomes, school admissions, or pretty much anything else. They claim racism is pervasive and is, indeed, America’s foundation stone, so the accusation always seems apt to them.
But their own racism is at least as ugly as what you find on the Right. Unlike Right-wing racism, Left-wing racism is not confined to the fringes but has been woven into the fabric of what it means to be a mainstream Democrat. Without it, just to take one obvious example, the displacement of “equality” by “equity” would be impossible.
Black conservatives suffer most from the Left’s racism, as has been brightly highlighted again recently by the latest Democratic attempts to smear Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas has endured a career-long trashing by the Left since 1991 when then-Sen. Joe Biden presided over the “high-tech lynching” that constituted Thomas’s confirmation hearings.
Most recently, news outlets and Democrats such as Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Sen Dick Durbin (IL) have mounted an attempted character assassination of Thomas by falsely accusing him of hiding hospitality from Harlan Crow, a real estate magnate. They also tried to taint them as fascists by feigning astonishment over Crow’s collection of memorabilia from historical tyrants, including Hitler. Crow is a passionate advocate of freedom over tyranny, no doubt a source of his lifelong friendship with Thomas, but this escapes mention in the tendentious stories and commentary of their accusers.
Hatred of Thomas is due to Democrats’ fear of him. They divide Americans into victim groups to whom they make their appeal, so it is vital that black people form a bloc, monolithic in its opinions. Thomas, a descendant of slaves, who lived a childhood of poverty in rural Georgia, is therefore regarded as a race traitor for thinking outside his group and coming to well-reasoned conservative conclusions. For this, he is branded an “Uncle Tom.”
So is Scott. In his exploratory presidential launch video, the senator cites Democrats calling him a “token” and a “prop.” They know he is a threat to their hopes of political domination because he is black, conservative, intelligent, personable, a great retail politician, and, having been born to a single mother in poverty, has a wonderful American dream story to tell.
The more black people think like Scott and Thomas, the worse it is for Democrats. If they refuse to be crammed into a class defined by orthodox Left-wing thinking and Democratic votes, where would the blue party be? More and more black people, especially men, are voting Republican. This is no surprise, or shouldn’t be, because racial minorities are disproportionately represented in the working class, and the GOP increasingly identifies with the interests of blue-collar voters. A political leader such as Scott would draw yet more black votes to the GOP.
Many millions of ordinary Americans, black or white, will also identify with Scott’s message that it is time to challenge and rid the country of the cult of victimhood championed by President Biden and the Democrats. They will rejoice at Scott’s rejection of the slander that the U.S. is an “evil country.” And they are sick of the Democrats’ “weaponizing race” to achieve power. Scott talks of America as a land of opportunity, not oppression.
His polling numbers now are tiny — no more than rounding errors when compared to those of former President Donald Trump — but many Republicans are likely to be interested as he spreads his message of hope and opportunity for all and demonstrates their truth with the story of his own life.
Republicans would also be delighted to nominate a black man, in part because the drumbeat of Democratic accusations of racism is wearing, even though they are false. No one likes to be called racist, perhaps especially when they know it is a lie. Nominating Scott, if that were to happen, would give Republicans the satisfaction not just of having a champion fit for the White House but also of being able to fling the charge of racism back in their accusers' faces.
Bkmk
Democrats only like the dark folks when they’re on the plantation. Been that way for a long, long, long time.
First of all, he’s Conservative only if he supports Drain the Swamp and Build the Wall. Taxes and spending are irrelevant.
Second of all, excellent VP selection by Trump once he has embraced conservatism.
McCain, as part of GOPe, never really thought Sarah Palin was the absolute best choice as VP. He was trying to counter a black opponent with a few women votes. There was never a chance to test that theory, given Lehman and total collapse in 2008.
Point being, a VP selection is about votes. Policy doesn’t matter.
Democrat racism is news???
4L8r
Tim Scott would not be a good President.
Putting Clarence Thomas in the same sentence with Tim Scott is like putting ‘champagne’ in the same sentence as ‘urine’.
This piece uses the name of Clarence Thomas to elevate Tim Scott and create the “look the liberals don’t like him” notion to create sympathy and support for Scott.
And to think it was El Rushbo who told us about the liberals playing the ‘victim card’.
The “Conservatives” do it too.
At least Tim Scott does not try and make his living off a dead man’s name.
I may not agree with Tim Scott on all issues but he is a good man.
I haven’t seen anything about Tim Scott being married. Ever. Do we have two lifelong “bachelors “as senators from South Carolina?
If you want to see real racism just watch how democrats treat a black man who doesn’t think, act, or vote like they think he should. I saw some really racist remarks about Hershel Walker from democrats.
The Democrat Party is lead by Slave Traders and act as such!
I like Tim Scott. But I also liked John James who ran against whitebread liberal Gary Peters in Michigan. Mr. James skin color didn’t seem to do him much good with that demographic even though he ran a good campaign and has an impressive resume.
Yes, and it presumes that conservatives are stupid, and will rally to any Republican who is portrayed as a victim of Democrats.
Thank you for saying that Tim Scott is a good man.
I don’t know if tempers or emotions run high on this site, but, there seems to be a lot of hatred directed at most Republicans on this site. It seems just about every Republican , besides Donald Trump, is derided as being too liberal, too deep state, or is a RINO.
I think we can all have policy disagreements and policy discussions, without expressing such strong disapproval of those who are politcqal allies on many issues.
There are worthy and honorable Conservative Republicans Constitutional Republicans like Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie in the US House among others.
I note that Massie supports Ron DeSantis for POTUS.
And I’m glad to see Senator Rand Paul in the US Senate that’s for sure.
The game these “Fakeservatives” have been playing with us for so many years now.
I don’t make a living off any dead man’s name I have been cleaning the *hitters for over 20 years and I handle garbage every day I work nowadays.
My hands get cuts from time to time, wood splinters etc. etc.
I am educated even have a four-year degree and have even worked in the mainstream media among other things.
History is my forte.
Yeah, I am glad that others also get that it is a cheap attempt to play them, and also are not falling for it.
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