In a Republican soap opera, there’s always room for a Black conservative. zakcheneyrice writes
, “If you see a Black man rising, I mean, let the man rise — even if you don’t agree with him.” McCarthy’s ordeal was a chaotic spectacle that laid bare how fractious the new House Republican majority is after a disappointing performance in the midterms. But it showed that, for all that is novel and unpredictable about the GOP’s predicament, it still has time to play its greatest hits.
And few are more reliable than racial cynicism. Republicans whiffed in the November elections, failing to win a Senate majority and clawing their way to just a five-vote advantage in the House despite a favorable electoral landscape. Their failure has been attributed to the party’s extremism on issues like abortion and the fielding of weak candidates.
The racial subtext of this decision was as unmistakable in 2022 as it was when Trump cited the same kind of malfeasance — vice in cities with large Black populations — to explain his election loss in 2020. Before helping Trump become president, racist demagoguery around crime has been an electoral gold mine dating back at least to the 1960s. It was reasonable to assume that hordes of Black and brown criminals would continue to be a galvanizing mental image.
If he hadn’t entered conservative politics, Donalds might still be the kind of Black man whose past indiscretions — he was arrested on a marijuana charge in the 1990s and later pleaded guilty to felony bribery — get regularly cited by Republicans to justify perpetual punishment and brutal law enforcement. The key difference is that Donalds has become a vessel for his party’s indignant posturing.
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