One of the hallowed but often-disregarded rules for Republican elected officials is that they are only allowed to express their racist opinions in private—in public, they’re supposed to parrot bland statements about the need for racial justice even as they work to stymie anything resembling progress. But local Republican officials in Texas, including the GOP chairs for some of the most populous counties in the state, keep on forgetting that directive, much to the dismay of the state’s top Republicans, who are now forced to call for their resignation.\n
One of the hallowed but often-disregarded rules for Republican elected officials is that they are only allowed to express their racist opinions in private—in public, they’re supposed to parrot bland statements about the need for racial justice even as they work to stymie anything resembling progress.
Two more Republican Party county chairs also decided to join this very racist online party, by similarly sharing on Facebook the conspiracy theory that George Soros is somehow behind George Floyd’s murder.
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