It is not hyperbole to say former President Obama saved us from the brink of irreversible financial disaster in 2009 with little fanfare. It is also not hyperbolic to say current President Joe Biden brought us back from the point of an irrevocable health disaster by stemming the rampant spread of Covid-19. All this to the shrill cries of Muslim conspiracy, socialism, and child grooming. While Republicans attack a mouse in Florida and spend sleepless nights wondering what audiotape comes next, Democrats are quietly going about the business of governing in self-imposed obscurity.
The Democratic Party prides itself on the understated, but maybe it needs a shrill message to command attention that stops the GOP from setting the country’s narrative. The quiet, analytical observations of Rep(s) Jamie Raskin (D-MD.) and Adam Schiff (D-CA.) may need a shot of public adrenaline and animus for the Conservatives. The country became familiar with Raskin and Schiff after two impeachments of former President Trump and the current investigations of his role in the insurrection. Somehow Republicans are allowed to express hatred for Democrats to the point of open rebellion. Still, it is considered bad form for a Democrat to say I hate GOP politics or politicians.
Pardon me…
I am a black Democrat, and I hated the ‘great communicator Ronald Reagan for saying, in 1971, “To see those monkeys from those African countries, damn them,”Reagan said, to laughter from Nixon. “They are still uncomfortable wearing shoes.” Sure one might say this was a private phone call, and the two men were joking. I was always told what you say in private reveals your character much more than what you say in public. Even in the face of this blatant racism, Democrat and former President Barack Obama felt it necessary to hold up Reagan as an example of reasonableness when he credited Reagan with converting the GOP into a “party of ideas.”
The obsessive need of Democrats to avoid, at all costs, calling a rat a rat for unrequited civility is hurting the party. Republicans, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley ( I only have two pages), and many more have proven to be odious people who have earned all the hatred heaped upon them. Sure, I know, ‘one should never hate anybody.’ The toxic mix of homophobia to distract from racism and racism to distract from homophobia is the latest loathsome attempt by Republicans to increasingly appeal to what is becoming the mainstream of the GOP.
As the GOP rings the washcloth dry of misinformation about Critical Race Theory, they have decided to adapt the main talking point of QAnon—pedophilia. Branding “Hollywood elites” child groomers did not reap the desired effect, so they aimed their hate-filled guns at African American Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ( killing two birds with one stone) and politicians like white, wife, mother, and Democratic state Senator Mallory McMorrow, who issued the sort of scathing rebuttal that should be the template for all democrats. “We have to push back against hateful garbage,” Sen. McMorrow said.
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