A Brief Moment of Clarity

     It's not just the fact that Jamal Bowman is a Democrat and that Republicans will latch on to any excuse to subtract Democratic-held seats in the House. It's also the fact that he's Black. To Republicans, this triggers their appropriated PTSD from the protests in 2020 after George Floyd's murder. White Republicans can't tolerate the very thought of Black people taking control of anything whether it's through legitimate or illegitimate means. It's baked into their DNA. Some of the more historically literate will have fever dreams tonight about Nat Turner and Vesey Denmark.