Jim Crow is dead, black Republican lawmakers told The Daily Signal, arguing that Democrats continue to invoke race as a “political crutch,” and that voters are increasingly rejecting a party they view as neither “moral” nor “logical.”
“What was happening under the Democratic-controlled South is that they took the ability away for black people to cast a ballot. That’s not the case today,” Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla told The Daily Signal. “So, Democrats are just complaining. We’re not going to sit here and act as if the same discrimination and segregation the Democratic Party created in the South exist today. They do not.”
Donalds continued, saying that Democrats, who have repeatedly called voter ID requirements Jim Crow 2.0, “always use race,” calling it “their political crutch.”
“Their ideas aren’t logical. Their ideas aren’t moral,” Donalds told The Daily Signal. “So, what they try to do is use the emotions tied to the history of our country and weaponize those emotions for political gain. It’s sick.”
Donalds said that strategy helps explain why voters continue to leave the Democratic Party.
“I think that’s why you’re seeing more and more people walk away from the Democratic Party,” he said. “How many years are we going to hear the same tired line over and over again?”
“But when it comes to actually getting something done that makes the lives of the American people better, they don’t do it,” Donalds continued. “They actually oppose it. The SAVE America Act is a golden example. They oppose it, or they support truly radical positions and ideas that the American people just don’t support.”
