“At Least The Old Racists Made The Trains Run On Time”

Biden goes off on GOP Congress at a fundraiser tonight: "I've been a senator since '72. I've served with real racists. I've served with Strom Thurmond. I've served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race. But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys do not…

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 22, 2024

To be fair, that’s not really what Biden said. But it’s a better response than Speaker Johnson came up with:

Speaker Johnson responds to Biden’s fundraiser comment tonight: https://t.co/UKhMnDFcya

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 22, 2024

Which just tells the racists their racism is not the problem.  And why do these guys suddenly think they’re playing poker?

James Comer who was touting information from an informant with alleged ties to Russian intelligence complains that Democrats are playing the ‘Russian card’ against him: Every time they get backed into a corner, they play the Russian card pic.twitter.com/iAsaPr6ln7

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 22, 2024

Are they trying to say all these fundamental matters are just pasteboard?

Russian attacks on American democracy have always been a problem, but they are worse now. Strom Thurmond was never big on democracy for non-whites or for people who didn’t live in his state, or agree  with him. But MAGA is worse.

Things haven’t really changed since 1972; but they’ve gotten worse.

And this is not a card game.