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Rancher Bo French, former chair of the Tarrant County Republican Party, is running to be Texas Railroad Commissioner. Kind of appropriate that he wants to oversee the state's use of a 19th century technology, since he's an out-and-out bigot whose views would fit right in if he were to time travel back to the antebellum era.
Throughout this campaign cycle, French has used eX-Twitter and other social media to express some truly reprehensible thoughts, and this weekend he was back at it again. He sent this tweet early Sunday morning and, as you can see, it had been viewed 28 million times by the end of the day:
In case anyone missed the point, French is disappointed at the number of brown U. Texas students in the photo.
Most of the Republicans running for office in Texas right now tried desperately to avoid commenting on French's post when asked. After all, they also want the racist voters French is going after. So, it fell to a guy whose career will soon end, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), to speak up:
This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.
Cornyn's response has been viewed 6.1 million times, which isn't 28 million, but is a lot. The responses, not surprisingly, lambasted the Senator from both sides of the aisle. The lefties posted photos of Cornyn posing with Trump, and noted that his support of MAGA made candidates like French possible. The righties slurred Cornyn as a RINO and traitor who is too scared to "battle" the left.
We agree with Cornyn's diagnosis here. There was a common saying during elections after the Civil War: "Not every Democrat was a traitor, but every traitor was a Democrat." Today, that might fairly accurately be updated to: "Not every Republican is a racist, but every racist is a Republican." If voters begin to think along those lines, and start to notice that a sizable chunk of the GOP platform is back-door racism (or front-door racism), or is pandering to some other sort of bigotry, the Republicans will have an existential crisis on their hands. (Z)