MSNBC's race-hustler extraordinaire Al Sharpton predictably went off the rails on Monday, as he lashed out at Republican Rep. James Comer during a typical episode of MSNBC's witless "Morning Joe."
Comer's transgression?
The Kentucky representative expressed serious concerns that bizarre-as-can-be Tim Walz, now the Democrat vice presidential nominee, had been elected governor of Minnesota largely by the promotional efforts of anti-capitalist special interests, including China.
According to Sharpton, the promotion of capitalism by Comer and the Republican Party is "racist" — and “as outdated as bell bottom pants.” Understand: In Sharpton's race-riddled mind, everything Republicans support or oppose can be connected to "racism" with no more than two dots.
Sharpton was super triggered by a recent clip of Comer talking about Waltz on Fox News Business Network. Comer:
Minnesota is not your normal state where Tim Walz is governor. Who the – great people in Minnesota — But you also have, you know, a huge population of residents in Minnesota that have come from other countries and have various different ideologies that don't really respect capitalism.
And we're concerned about that because we have the strongest economy in the world, but we cannot have more government. We cannot operate like China does where the government plays the major role in every business. The government has to have ownership in every business, and the government dictates every facet of our lives. That won't work in the United States.
“And this is what Tim Walz appears to believe," Comer added, "and we know he's taken students to China and tried to teach them that China is doing things the right way."
Note: Comer said zero about race or ethnicity. ZERO. What he did talk about — only — was the contrast between capitalism in America and government-controlled economies, including that of Communist China.
"Shockingly," race-bating Sharpton saw it differently. First, "Morning Joe" fill-in host Katty Kay, a quintessential U.K. leftist, sneered:
It's ‘not a normal state.’ They have people from other countries, god forbid, who don't believe in capitalism.
That was all it took to set off bloviating Al.
And what does that mean? I think that what he is really showing is that the whole appeal that the Republican Party is trying to play on is an all-male, all-white kind of, you know, we must preserve what we consider to be American. Which is as outdated as bell bottom pants.
I mean, you can't deal with a country — first of all, many people in New York, many people in L.A., many people everywhere came from other countries. What does that really mean?
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So, what Comer is playing to is what Trump is really saying. This whole male, white dominance, and they're other than us. Walz is considered a conservative Democrat, at best. I mean, and a bulldog Democrat at that. So, to try to make him other than that.
And how do you — Do they give you a test on capitalism coming in? Many home-born Americans have questions about capitalism, especially if you get to the extremes of it.
"So, I think this is how they're trying to play to that base of, it's us against them," Sharpton concluded. "They're not one of us."
Asinine. Comer "tried" no such thing, and neither does the Republican Party as a whole.
On the contrary, Sharpton and race hustlers like him — now including pretty much the entire Democrat Party — continually play the "politics of division" game along racial lines, popularized within the party by Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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I'd say nothing has changed in the subsequent 16 years, but that would be incorrect. The Democrats' "politics of division" game has grown more egregious and even more dangerous.
Then again, it's all they have.
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