{"id":82494,"date":"2022-06-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82494"},"modified":"2022-06-15T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:17:19","slug":"the-new-brown-face-s-of-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82494","title":{"rendered":"The New Brown Face\/s Of White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Remember when Democrats giddily predicted Texas would inevitably turn blue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/mayra-flores-victory-hailed-by-republicans-texas-just-got-more-red\/ar-AAYtCa8?ocid=BingNewsSearch\">Someone didn&#8217;t get the memo<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican Mayra Flores won the special election in TX34 &#8211; along the Rio Grande, the second most Latino district in the country &#8211; last night.  Born in Mexico, daughter of migrant workers, wife of a border patrol agent, she ran on a red <em>carne asada <\/em>platform; secure the border, protect the economy, God Guns and Guts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ed Morrissey <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/06\/15\/red-wave-alert-republicans-flip-texas-house-seat-in-special-election-n476295\">notes the caveats<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Special elections have very unique and (usually) non-predictive turnout models. TX-34 is a D+5 district, so it\u2019s never been\u00a0<em>entirely<\/em>\u00a0out of reach for Republicans. Flores won in part by running a smart campaign but also by building a financial and media-buy edge over her opponent. Flores will have to run again in less than five months to keep the seat, and she may have trouble getting a lock on the same resources when the GOP is fighting for 435 seats and not just one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>All that aside?  For the moment, it doesn&#8217;t appear that Trump&#8217;s velocity among Latinos has dissipated &#8211; nor does it appear to be strictly tied to Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayrafloresforcongress.com\/\">whom she references<\/a> on her website, but doesn&#8217;t lindell it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch for MSNBC and <em>The View <\/em>to call her and her voters the New Brown Faces of White Supremacy.  Mark my words.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear GOP:  Don&#8217;t screw this up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Democrats giddily predicted Texas would inevitably turn blue? Someone didn&#8217;t get the memo. Republican Mayra Flores won the special election in TX34 &#8211; along the Rio Grande, the second most Latino district in the country &#8211; last night. Born in Mexico, daughter of migrant workers, wife of a border patrol agent, she ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82496,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82494\/revisions\/82496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}