What Went Down During President Biden’s Speech To Congress

The GOP is at this interesting crossroads. As they give face time to Republicans of a racial minority group like Scott, they are also having to appeal to a base of supporters motivated by white racial grievance. And, unsurprisingly, Scott leans into a kind of racial rhetoric that sounds much more like Clarence Thomas than Thurgood Marshall: “America is not a racist country.”

This isn’t the first time Scott has told his personal story of the racism he’s experienced as a Black man. Last summer, he showed his Republican colleagues hateful voicemails he’s received.

It looks like Scott is going to talk more about race than Biden. Judging from tonight’s speeches, Republicans want to make this more of an issue, and Democrats want to talk less about it.