This is so rich on so many levels — not the least of which is my undying love for (former) Texas Dem. congressional rep. Jasmine Crockett. She is the gift that keeps on giving. Here she’s being pilloried by a New Republic commie scumbag for not providing adequate support for James Talarico, who defeated our beloved Jasmine in the Democrat Senate primary while having the audacity to be both white and male! The horror…
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Jasmine is a national treasure! She’s AOC but darker, though no less daft. The child of very upper middle-class, academic parents, Jasmine attended Rosati-Kain Academy (~$16K a year).
Jasmine seizes every opportunity to wow her audiences with her “Jasmine from the hood” shtick that would make Hillary (“I ain’t no ways tired”) blush.
Here’s the money shot from this piece:
The congresswoman has a legitimate beef that she and other Black female Democratic candidates are treated unfairly by a party that is obsessed with “electability” and often views the most viable candidates as those who are white and male like Talarico. A party both committed to racial and gender inclusion and heavily reliant on getting more than 90 percent of Black women’s votes to win elections should be trying to get more Black women into office, not essentially practicing pre-discrimination. “We will oppose you based on your race and/or gender in the primary because we fear voters in the general election will reject you based on your race and/or gender,” is the position of many Democratic voters and elites towards Black and female candidates.
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How rich is this? The party built entirely on identity politics, cashiering a black female candidate for being…black and female is just…delicious! It really shows their hand.
They’re not about “identity” or uplifting working-class people. The only thing that matters to them is raw political power.
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Image: Jasmine Crockett. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.