“I didn’t come here,” Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina complained last week, “to have the president as a boss or a candidate as a boss. I came here to pass good, solid policy.” Tillis was referring to Republicans who were abandoning a deal on border security because they thought reaching a solution with President Joe Biden would hurt Trump’s electoral chances in the fall. It is immoral, Tillis added, to look “the other way because you think this is the linchpin for President Trump to win.”
As Bruce Willis’s fictional cop John McClane would say: Welcome to the party, pal. In theory, Republicans care deeply about the situation on the southern United States border. In reality, most of them seem to care only about whatever Trump wants at any given moment, and what Trump wants is to take refuge in the Oval Office from his multiple legal problems. Tillis’s outburst, although welcome, was a rare moment of candor from a senior Republican senator about the degree to which the party’s once and future nominee has gutted the GOP of any remaining principles.
For years, Trump has attacked and obliterated anything like virtue in the Republican Party, a process that regularly features Republicans pulling their political souls from their bodies and handing them to Trump in jars for display on his mantle at Mar-a-Lago. (Ted Cruz going from the potential conscience of the 2016 GOP convention to a Trump-praising, phone-banking flunky is only one such example.)
They’re not abandoning anything. They simply don’t feel the need to hide it anymore.
They finally have the implied permission they’ve always craved to return to the days when white guys controlled everything, minorities (now including LGBTQ+) can’t sit at the same counters in delis, and they could smack their secretaries on the ass and say “thanks, toots.”
This is who they’ve always been.
rich people controlled everything.
Fixed that for you. To imply that no white cultures have ever been vicimized is erasure on a colossal scale.
I’m referring specifically to the United States in the pre-civil rights era. Not on a global scale, so simmer down with your umbrage thanks. I’ve got enough education that know that slavery and other forms of oppression have crossed the colour barrier. But in pre-civil rights era U.S. it was clearly WHITE people. Yes, there were poor white people who had it hard as well, but they weren’t getting lynched and their towns burned to the ground ON TOP of that.
If you can point me to one American poor white person who had to go through something like the Tulsa massacre, I’ll accept your rebuke. If not, kindly go away.
Irish and Italian people were brutally oppressed and segregated in the 18th and 19th centuries in the US and Canada.
Hell, there is even a famous movie about it.
Not to mention that the brutally oppressed history of the Slavic people going back over a millenia.
Do I deny the Irish and Italians were treated like shit? No, of course not.
But let’s not forget that an Irish Catholic won the presidency while Jim Crow laws were still largely in effect.
There is an ocean of difference between being hated by your neighbours, and having a government that literally enshrines your exclusion into law.
Except discrimination of the Irish(at least) was enshrined in law, just not during the Jim Crow era.