From Jonathan Weissman's op-ed in the New York Times:
"A surge of youthful activism powered major liberal victories in Wisconsin and Chicago and a boisterous legislative uprising in Tennessee this week, as Republicans absorbed a string of damaging political blows, beginning with the arraignment of their leading presidential contender on criminal charges in Manhattan. [snip]
A coda, or perhaps an own-goal, came on Thursday in red-state Tennessee, when the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature voted to expel two young, Black male representatives for their roles in leading youthful protests calling for gun control, after a mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville, but narrowly allowed a white female lawmaker who had stood with them to remain.
In so doing, Tennessee Republicans achieved little besides catapulting the representatives, Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, as well as Gloria Johnson, onto the national stage: Both men could be reappointed to their seats by officials in their Nashville and Memphis districts as soon as next week, as they await special elections in which they are favored to win.
'If my job, along with other members of the R.N.C., is to protect the brand of the Republican Party, this didn’t help,' said Oscar Brock, a Republican National Committeeman from Tennessee. 'You’ve energized young voters against us. Worse than squandering support, you’ve made enemies where we didn’t need them.'” (our emphasis)
Protecting the perverted "brand" of the Republican / White Nationalist / Shooters party should be a cause of deep shame. Let's work, organize, educate and register to make sure that Oscar Brock's prediction comes true and bigly.
(photo: Protests at Tennessee State Capitol. Seth Herald / Getty Images)
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