Oh sure, I could write about Donald Trump getting even more charges added to the docket in the documents case. And God, does he surround himself with people even dumber than he is. But this is even more comical.
I'm sure you all know Byron Donalds, the Black Florida GOP representative. When old white men patted his head, as above, that should have been a clue to Mr. Donalds that he was seen in only a certain way, and that way was in no manner a good one. But you know, gotta make those ducats, so do what you have to do to keep the train moving.
Representative Donalds, however, took slight, gentle, nay even quiet objection to Florida's new curriculum for African-American history:
This hardly rises to the level of "no justice, no peace". No matter. He had meddled with the primal forces of the modern conservative movement, and this was not to be tolerated. Suddenly, he was Kamala Harris' long-lost brother from another mother.
And, of course, this response was interesting:
This one is both indicative of the civil war in the GOP, and that "everything Trump touches dies".
Look. You can't tie political ideology to race and ethnicity. There are Black conservatives, just like there are white liberals. But the dilemma which Black conservatives face is that they tie themselves to a party and movement which, well, wants to pat them on the head when they do what they're told to do, but will turn on them the moment they show any deviation from the day's orthodoxy. Mr. Donalds couched his critique in the most anodyne of phrasing. But that was too much. It upset the natural order of things, where Black conservatives like Mr. Donalds shuck and jive to the tune being played, and that tune is one not of their choosing. If they dare to ask for another song, then they become unpersons.
I'm sure Mr. Donalds has reasons for his ideology. But one can't deny that such reasons speak of a cognitive dissonance. White movement conservatives don't see Black conservatives as equals. They are window dressing, the "I have a Black friend" of the Right. If they forget that for even a moment this is what happens.
What will be interesting to see is if Mr. Donalds and the other Black conservatives who support him maintain their stance or collapse in the face of such vitriol. I can't predict since this so rarely happens. But minorities on the Right aren't exactly profiles in courage.
Anyway, we're also on indictment watch. Stay tuned.
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