Reporter's Notebook:...Dark Republicans And The Big Tease...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas | Dark Republicans. Smart, smiling party members like young presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Like Mauro Garza, the congressional aspirant. Like Tim Scott, the U.S. Senator from South Carolina. Like former South Carolina Gov. Nimarata "Nikki" Randhawa Haley. Like Mayra Flores, the 34th Congressional District candidate.

To real, down-to-the-core MAGA Republicans, those people are NOT Republicans.

Their skin is too dark. Their names are too-foreign.

You're fooling yourself if you think the Republican Party in the full-grasp of MAGA would ever accept them. Not in any office wielding any sort of real power, like the presidency. They may run, but they can't hide.

It is The Great Unwritten.

The U.S. may be a country with the richest immigrant history on the face of the planet, only don't make too much out of that in front of a MAGA type. Vivek Ramaswamy (shown in photo atop this story) is an Indian-American, like Haley. That is just, uh, totally unacceptable in an American president, the boys in MagaLand will tell you in no uncertain terms.

Josh at me all you want. America today is as segmented as a table puzzle. You people over there stay to your side of town, ya hear me? That stuff is alive and living well across the land. Believe it. Vivek and Nikki are getting lip service; that's all it is. Traditional Republicans may argue that the assessment is not true, but traditional Republicans are house pets for MAGA troops.

Tim Scott is simply too-Black, much blacker than Barack Obama, whose mom was White. His skin color is more along the lines of Al Sharpton, the activist MAGA loves to hate. Locally, chipper Hispanic congressional candidates Mauro Garza and Mayra Flores may as well be farmworkers to MAGA, and it doesn't matter how MAGA they wish to come across themselves. Acceptance is not coming for those two. They may be tolerated, especially if they win. But there's no invitation to Mar-a-Lago in the mail, Baby.

Suffer again.

At least, when Garza and Flores were Democrats, the Democrats acknowledged their biology - they are humans! MAGA could give a flip about them. Yeah, go ahead and ask them (but in private) if they'd like to see Ramaswamy or Haley as president. Make me laugh, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

We could dig into our files to get info about the lack of Blacks and Browns in Donald J. Trump's administration. Or in Greg Abbott's, the Republican Texas governor. Don't look for any big numbers in either case. They're not there.

Actually, nationally, Democrats fare only slightly better.

The U.S. still retains a Whites-dominated hierarchy in Congress, the courts, the Supreme Court, the military and its ambassador corps.

I know. So, why are Whites - and MAGA whites especially, forever bitching?

The Blacks and Browns and the Indians are playing the game.

It's a major cruel tease, but the game is being played.

Pity...

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