It is without fail that anytime a prominent Republican politico disagrees with or otherwise opposes a prominent Democrat minority figure, the race card (and/or the sexism card) will get trotted out as a way to shut that Republican up, shut down the debate, and dishonestly frame the differences in opinion as boiling down to racism or sexism (or trans/homophobia).
We saw it nearly every day during the eight years Barack Obama was president, and also during Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, and we continue to see it, for example, whenever members of the antisemitic “Squad” act stupidly, which is more often than not, unfortunately.
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On Thursday, we saw it again during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Adeel Abdullah Mangi, who was nominated by Joe Biden in November to serve…