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A Look Inside the Mind of a Black Republican
By Isabelle Lee
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By Isabelle Lee
June3, 2021
He was born in Brooklyn. Now he represents Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives. What’s more, Congressman Byron Donalds is Black, Republican, and Trump even called him a rising star of the Republican party. Join Carlos on
The Carlos Watson Show this week as he sits down with the newly elected 42-year-old to discuss his controversial take on Trump, why he chose the Republican Party and whether he agrees with Black Lives Matter. You can find excerpts below or listen to the full interview on the show’s podcast feed.
The narrative in which Republicans are doomed by demography and their addiction to Trumpism misses the polarized dynamics in which they never pay a price for extremism, cannot fall far, and have an excellent chance to win in 2022 and 2024.
May 3, 2021, 8:03 p.m. ET
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There is a quote from Ralph Reed that I often return to when trying to understand how the right builds political power. “I would rather have a thousand school board members than one president and no school board members,” the former leader of the Christian Coalition said in 1996. School board elections are a great training ground for national activism. They can pull parents, particularly mothers, into politics around intensely emotional issues, building a thriving grass roots and keeping it mobilized.
You could easily write a history of the modern right that’s about nothing but schools. The battles were initially about race, particularly segregation and busing. Out of those fights came the Christian right, born in reaction to the revocation of tax exemptions for segregated Christian schools. As the Christian right grew, political struggles over control of schools became more explicitly religious. There