Republicans having a normal one
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Of course, for Republicans racism is completely normal:
MAGA REPUBLICANS ARE subjecting Vice President Kamala Harris to a barrage of racist and sexist attacks as she has stormed out in front as the likely 2024 nominee in the wake of Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race.
In just the past day, Harris has been targeted by resurgent “birthers” who claim she’s not a natural-born citizen and by Trumpy Bible-thumpers who claim she’s a biblical “Jezebel” — a reference to a temptress who misled the faithful into idolatry and sexual depravity. GOP Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said that “100 percent, she was a DEI hire” insisting of Biden’s choice of Harris: “When you go down that route, you get mediocrity.”
The attacks from the far right are as predictable as they are distasteful — reflecting a “based” far-right culture that sees unvarnished expressions of bigotry as a virtue. The attacks center on Harris’ race and gender, and frequently include the claim, as Burchett did, that she is a “DEI” candidate. While technically shorthand for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” DEI has taken on the function of a coded slur that right wingers can now hurl at minorities. (As the journalist Eric Kleefeld puts it: “DEI is pronounced with a hard-R sound.”) While primarily wielded against people of color, it’s also used to attack women and LGBTQ Americans.
Republicans began tripping over themselves to promote racist tropes about Harris as soon as Biden withdrew.
Trump White House veteran Kellyanne Connway blasted Harris on Fox News as lazy (“doesn’t work hard”) and inarticulate (“she does not speak well”). Other Republicans have claimed Democrats would rather rally around another standard bearer, but are supposedly saddled with Harris out of demographic obligation: “A lot of Democrats feel they have to stick with her,” said Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), “because of her ethnic background.”
The DEI bit, being used against a sitting vice president and former U.S. Senator and Attorney General of the country’s largest state is particularly rich coming from a ticket of Donald Trump (no relevant experience before becoming president) and J.D. Vance (wrote a shitty book that was made into an awful movie, senator for a few months of little accomplishment.)