By Alex
Parker
Sen. Tim Scott doesn’t have time for the ridiculousness
of racist obsession.
The South Carolina Republican’s made mince meat of the
silliness before, which I covered in “Black Congressman Smacks Down Race-Baiting Nitwittery.”
Get ready for another smackdown.
And this time, it’s over the absolutely relentless
castigation of Donald J. Trump.
Tim defended the President Monday on Fox News
program The Ingraham Angle. He told host Laura the
nonsense stinks:
“What you do smell — not hear, but smell — is fear. What
you smell is fear on the Left.”
He’s right about the constant, constant, constant…did
I say constant? If not, the constant claims of racism.
Sometimes it seems that’s all there is. About Trump. About Republicans. About
conservatives. About everything. It’s never ending, and never endingly bizarre:
“They have been consistently using the race card. Every
single time there’s a presidential run, you’ll hear John McCain — racist. Mitt
Romney — racist. Ronald Reagan — racist. George Bush — racist. [George] W.
[Bush] — racist.”
In my opinion, when it’s all they appear to know to say,
the claims cease to have any meaning. It just becomes noise. It becomes the
sound of a side without any ideas.
Tim colored it the lowest of the low:
“Why do they continue to find that narrative? Because
they understand that the lowest common denominator in politics is fear and
division.”
The 2nd-term congressman also served up this:
“Well, there’s no doubt that President Trump is not a
racist, and the facts are very simple: that the same folks that voted for me
[also] voted for President Trump because President Trump made promises to the
voters, and he’s keeping the promises. So without any question, if you look at
his legacy, it will be his accomplishments in office == frankly, helping in
many, many ways African Americans. … President Trump has been able to deliver
policies that have promoted, encouraged, and inspired growth in the African
American community, economically in a way that no president has done in the
last 40 years. This president is not a racist.”
You know that “ideas” thing I said? Tim seems to be of a
like mind:
“Look, if you were running on the Left, would you run on
the Green New Deal? Would you run on the 70% new income tax? Would you run on a
4% wealth tax? Would you run on a financial transaction tax? No. What else
would you run on? Well, you’d run on some tired narrative that the President,
because he’s a Republican, has to be somehow a racist.”
The senator also gave me an Amen here:
“It is inconsistent with reality. It’s a different
dimension that I don’t understand, and frankly, the more you use the concept of
racism, the more we grow “ism” fatigue in this country. And that is a terrible
place for us to be. The greatest threat by overusing racism is that when there
is an actual challenge, you’ve cried wolf in the wilderness one time too many.”
Tim Scott is right on the money. When will so many
Democrats determine that talk of positive solutions more effectively compel
voters than do cries of negative problems?
And when they never stop harping on the same problem, after
a time, incidentally, it tends to suggest they don’t have a
solution.
