Thread by @Dreamweasel

The racist southern conservatives used to be Democrats. Today, the racist southern conservatives are Republicans.

Chatlie Kirk’s proposal to deputize citizens to protect white America from invading brown-skinned hordes sounds a whole lot like the blueprint of the Ku Klux Klan.

https://twitter.com/Matthewmattix3/status/1441143987331547142

The Democratic Party has grown far more progressive on civil rights in the past 50 years. Even Byrd himself renounced the Klan & was recognized by the NAACP for his commitment to racial equality.

I assume most conservatives already know this. But they simply choose to ignore it.

And yet, they persist. They cry out “BUT ROBERT BYRD!” whenever they are confronted with yet another example of the current GOP’s appalling support of racist practices. Their support of police brutality, no matter how blatant or unjustified. Their demonization of immigrants.

The devout Republican will defend all of these racist practices in one breath and then accuse Democrats of being “just as bad” in the next, all because of one Democrat whose legacy is meaningless to them as anything other than a means to deflect from their own racism.

They persist in their mission to win the argument and own the libs, screaming “BUT ROBERT BYRD!” like a toddler smearing his own poop on the wall and thinking he’s Pablo Picasso.

Telling them the truth doesn’t matter, because they already know & they don’t care.

If Robert Byrd HADN’T renounced his racist views, I guarantee he would not have been honored by the Democrats.

But the Republicans would’ve elected him President.