What Went Down During President Biden’s Speech To Congress

Well, I think it goes back, Lee, to what we were talking about earlier on “cancel culture” and how the GOP is using that as a strategy to attack Democrats for being too liberal. Scott seems to be focusing on that in his rebuttal.

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.