I think one thing this election has shown is that people need to stop treating minority conservatives like jokes and start taking them seriously. The Republican Party is becoming more diverse, just like the country, and it’s wrong to dismiss minority conservatives as tokens.
Maria Elvira Salazar deserved to be treated better. John James deserved to be treated better. Young Kim deserved to be treated better. Their campaigns were either ignored or downplayed the whole race.
I don't think that's fair especially given how much press people like Amy McGrath or MJ Hegar got.
If you want a diverse, growing America, voices like Maria Salazar and Young Kim are gonna be part of it - and that's not a bad thing. A diversifying GOP is good for everyone. I'm excited for the future and hopeful that traditional divides can be overcome and that good can be done
Bringing new backgrounds, new ideas, and new stories is unequivocally a good thing and I'll stand by that forever.
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Quite possibly the dumbest of all gun control policy proposals.
According to the NRA, there are between 8.5 and 15 million "assault weapons" in the United States. Other estimates range from 10 to 20 million. I'll pick 10 as a conservative guess.
An entry-level AR-15 costs around $650. Let's assume the government "buys back" all assault rifles at this cost. That's a total of $65 billion for this "buyback", assuming 100% compliance and that each rifle is bought at that cost.
Now, how many lives would this save? According to the FBI, out of the 15,070 murdered in the US in 2016, 11,004 (73%) were murdered with firearms. Rifle murders accounted for 374 of those deaths - 2.5% of all murders, 3.3% of gun murders. ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u…
Surprise surprise, the author of the @latimes "one-state solution" article is an anti-Semite.
*Supports BDS
*Supports right of return
*Opposes the existence of Israel
*Denies the link of the Jewish people to Israel
*Calls Israel an apartheid state and compares it to Jim Crow
*Wrote articles for Electronic Intifada
*Described Hamas missiles as "Minor border skirmishes" but attacked Israeli response
*Described Israel as a "colonial power" displacing "indigenous people" and minimized terrorism as "armed, and sometimes crude, popular resistance"
*Accused the "Israeli lobby" of causing US support for Israel
*Compared Palestinian displacement to the Holocaust
*Condemned MAHMOUD ABBAS for acknowledging Jews have a right to live in Israel