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It's Live on the HomePage Now: FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Conservatism Tim Scott Fronted on Wednesday Is All Empty Slogans and Culture-War Banner-Waving I truly don’t know how Republicans manage this kind of cognitive dissonance without gears and springs popping out of their ears.
But President Biden promised you a specific kind of leadership. He promised to unite a nation. To lower the temperature. To govern for all Americans, no matter how we voted. This was the pitch. You just heard it again. But our nation is starving for more than empty platitudes. We need policies and progress that bring us closer together. But three months in, the actions of the president and his party are pulling us further and further apart. The president is dividing us by pushing policies approved of by well north of 60 percent of us? I truly don’t know how they manage this kind of cognitive dissonance without gears and springs popping out of their ears. Scott went on to praise the Republican response to the pandemic while denouncing the relief bill that passed this year. I have 600,000 reasons why that is misguided. But it was on voting rights that Scott allowed himself to front for something that is truly vile. I’m an African-American who has voted in the South my entire life. I take voting rights personally. Republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat. And so do the voters. Big majorities of Americans support early voting and big majorities support voter ID, including African-Americans and Hispanics. Common sense makes common ground. But today, this conversation has collapsed. The state of Georgia passed a law that expands early voting; preserves no-excuse mail-in voting, and, despite what the president claimed, did not reduce Election Day hours. The Brennan Center has pointed out that, since last November, states with Republican legislators have introduced 361 bills in 47 states, all of which will make voting in 2022 more difficult than it was in 2020. This is on top of all the laws passed since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. Many of the proposed laws are virtually identical. Scott wants us to believe that all of this is not what it seems—that it's coincidental. The conservatism for which Scott fronted on Wednesday night is an exhausted set of empty slogans that fewer and fewer people believe anymore. Culture-war banner-waving is all they have left that has any life in it, and any blood running through it. And sooner or later—sooner, I think—his political party is going to do something that makes Senator Tim Scott look like a chump, and there’s nothing that can stop that now. |
am taking an informal poll. What is the over/under on how many weeks it will take his political party to do something that makes Senator Tim Scott look like a chump? On Wednesday night, the president gave a speech brimming with empathy and optimism, with just enough sharp edges (“White supremacy is terrorism”; “Trickle-down economics have never worked.”) to show that he meant what he was saying. 
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