The GOP is Hot for Scott!

On Monday, May 22^nd, South Carolina Junior Senator, Timothy Eugene “Tim” Scott, announced he is running for president in the 2024 Republican Primary. As usual, the Republican Party was elated. They finally got an elected black candidate. The lead up to Tim Scott’s announcement was littered with Republican candidates eager to prove they are not racist. The New York Post wrote that “Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)… was “very excited” about a potential Scott run, while Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said he would “advise him to go for it,” and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) said it “Doesn’t get any better than Tim Scott.”” The overwhelming need by GOP political hacks to prove that Republicans are not racist is pathetic, laughable, and yet, predictable.

South Dakota, a state with zero similarities to the demographic profile of South Carolina, nearly tripped over Iowa in an effort to show it was the least racist of them all. Republican Senators Mike Rounds and John Thune have already endorsed Tim Scott. “I think he is the closest to Ronald Reagan that you’re going to see,” stated Senator Rounds. Ignoring the fact that Reagan was a charismatic and handsome actor who was a ladies’ man during his heyday, it is hard to see what Rounds sees. The black senator who was never married (and reportedly never had a girlfriend) initially ascended to the Russell Building at the Capitol by means of an appointment made by the other 2024 presidential candidate from South Carolina, Nikki Haley. By contrast, Reagan, the actor-turned-politician, spent eight years leading the most populous state in these United States before becoming a political activist for limited government. The Reagan comparisons are always tiresome, but this one was just pure cringe.

Never to be outdone for his love of black people, Donald Trump came out in support of the Scott candidacy. Quoting the former president who boasted the lowest black unemployment in post-13^th Amendment history, Trump said on Truth Social, “Tim is a big step up from Ron DeSanctimonious, who is totally unelectable.” As for DeSantis, the Florida governor does not think much of Tim Scott, stating that there were only three choices in 2024, “[DeSantis], Trump, or Biden.” DeSantis is in the minority of Republicans who cannot kiss a black candidate’s buttocks fast enough. His comment led Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy to steal the language of the antifa, claiming that DeSantis “depeopled” Scott on CNN’s “State of the Union” television show and claimed this was DeSantis’ attempt to “dis” a candidate. This coincided with Cassidy alluding to DeSantis’ alleged anti-black racism (something with which the NAACP agrees).

As if the defense of the black presidential candidate were scripted from on-high, the other Senator Scott, the terrible former Florida governor, Rick Scott, distanced himself from DeSantis. While praising Tim Scott, Rick Scott – who ironically co-authored the “PROTECT Kids Act,” expressed his desire for Ron DeSantis to “sit down” with the LGBTQ and black communities to find ways he could work together with the Florida government and address “real concerns” for transgender and African-American children. Again, this appeared to be an attempt to elevate alleged bigotry as a concern upon the black Republican’s entry into the race. The play became obvious over the lead-up to the announcement by Tim Scott: elevate Scott, ignore Trump, target DeSantis. Consequently, Republican advisors in the mainstream media were quick to point out that Ron DeSantis put most of the Black Lives Matter leadership of Florida into prison before permanently stripping black congressional districts while dismissing Tim Scott.

The fawning love for South Carolina’s Tim Scott – as well as Candace “Dox Dissidents” Owens, Herschel “Punch Drunk” Walker, and Ben “stab them in the belt buckle” Carson – is a depraved sickness within the Republican Party. In almost every case of a black political actor, if that black person shows any bit of love toward the Republican Party, the GOP will ignore the actual political or philosophical positions of the black individual and declare their undying love for the black person. That holds true whether the subject is the virulent anti-Southern, anti-White Frederick Douglass, the communist-rapist Martin Luther King, Jr., or Tim Scott. So, what does the other unmarried senator from South Carolina believe?

If you follow his record, which has been decried as harshly conservative by the usual leftist voices, you find a mixed bag. Note, my definition of conservative – someone who seeks to conserve – and the Republican definition of conserve are not the same, but I digress. Looking at Tim Scott’s record, it is clear that he should be entirely unacceptable to any voter who believes “law and order” are priorities in a rapidly collapsing United States.

To begin, Tim Scott has voted with the majority of Republicans on most issues, especially as it pertains to executive appointments, such as cabinet officials and judicial nominees (both for and against). He is for a balanced-budget and opposes same-sex marriages. In this regard, he will be touted as a good, loyal conservative. Of course, the Republican Party is barely a conservative party and voting along largely meaningless lines (such as appointments while in the minority) simply serves to raise the profile of the member’s conservative voting record, the substance of which is often lost in the statistics. What is more troubling are Scott’s tribal inclinations. Despite being a Republican who serves a generally conservative state in the South, Tim Scott often thinks like many of his black counterparts in the Democratic Party: “black first.” Consider the following examples.

In 2018, Scott teamed with Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA), to pass a federal hate crime bill that made lynching an automatic hate crime. Ignoring for a moment that hate crime legislation is by nature anti-conservative, the perpetual myth that lynching was an exclusively White-on-others (usually black) crime was validated by the black senator’s definition of lynching and his flawed historical assessment of the practice. The reality of lynching was that the act was reserved for the most heinous crimes against a local community and it was especially enacted by Whites upon Whites (such as an accusation of sexual deviancy). Black “victims” of lynchings were most often neither innocent nor victims. Proof of this assertion can be found in the equitable way in which a White mob in turn-of-the-19^th/20^th century Georgia bypassed a black janitor, Jim Conley, who was falsely accused of raping a White girl named Mary Phagan, and lynched White (albeit Jewish) Leo Frank for the rape he clearly committed (leading to the creation of the Anti-Defamation League as a means to ensure Jewish sexual criminals are never held accountable for their crimes in the future). But Tim Scott’s anti-White animus gets worse.

In 2020, Scott led the creation of the “Justice Act.” Scott’s reaction to criticism from the political Left was telling: “Not surprising the last 24 hours have seen a lot of ‘token’ ‘boy’ or ‘you’re being used’ in my mentions… Let me get this straight … you DON’T want the person who has faced racial profiling by police, been pulled over dozens of times, or been speaking out for YEARS drafting this?” In other words, Tim Scott saw himself as a fellow victim of White-on-black racism.

McConnell seemed to confirm this belief in White racism and Scott’s victim status when he stated in the same article, “None of us have had the experience of being an African American in this country and dealing with this discrimination. I think the best way for the Senate Republicans to go forward on this is to listen to one of our own, who’s had these experiences.” Whereas some of the bill was commendable (such as a reduction in “no-knock” warrants), it also did the following: (1) it levied penalties against the use of chokeholds (referencing black criminal Eric Garner’s death at the hands of the NYPD); (2) created a federal database to track allegations of racism by police officers when considering other departmental hiring or promotions; (3) provided for federal suspensions of grants to police departments that hired or kept police officers accused of racism; (4) strengthened the role of the Far Left Department of Justice in local police training and oversight over allegations of racism; and (5) strengthened the Department of Homeland Security’s role in tracking bigoted communication, especially as it pertained to the proliferation of memes and content among law enforcement. In other words, Tim Scott’s “Justice Act” was a litany of black grievances, often predicated on outlandish lies. Trump would go on to rhetorically support the bill.

Thankfully, due in large part to the Democrat’s desire to deny a Republican win for the black community, the bill was killed by the Nancy Pelosi Congress. According to them, it did not go far enough. In reality, an election year killed the bill that would have otherwise passed. In fact, many of the provisions have since passed by means of executive orders through the Biden Administration’s weaponization of law enforcement grants. Like the rest of his fellow black community members, Tim Scott is never going to be a conservative in the same sense as Whites – especially Southerners – define the term. I have written about this issue before at Identity Dixie. The historic definition of American conservatism is predicated on a limited but moral government, by which the states are the empowered institutions, not the federal government. That concept is not shared by blacks who view “states’ rights” as a euphemism for their suppression – whether the state right is slavery, Jim Crow segregation, or stand your ground. The most conservative blacks have seen the American experience as one in which it is “us against them,” even if they hold a marginal animus toward “them” (i.e., Whites). Based on Tim Scott’s approach toward federal law enforcement reform, it is clear he has an “us against them” mentality, too.

Regardless, the GOP is hot for Scott, because he’s black.