Johnson: Clay Higgins is a dear friend of mine and a colleague from Louisiana, and a very frank and outspoken person. He's also a very principled man. I didn’t even see it but he tweeted something today about Haitians.
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 25, 2024
Reporter: He told them to get out of the country by Jan 20th… pic.twitter.com/Y0oFz727WO
There's a formula here that the GOP employs again and again: the Tweet/statement/activity was terrible, but this is a good person (because I said so), and while I didn't see the Tweet/know all the details, I will forgive/absolve this person, even though I was not the person hurt by the activity. Because it's the Christian thing to do.
It's a lie. They aren't forgiving a "real" transgression (to them), and they don't care if the person is a good person--that person is "good enough for the political moment" and requires a permission slip. The permission slip has been pre-written, and we are only really just viewing what the in-group's tolerances are.
This type of cheap grace applies to Higgins, to Mark Robinson, to JD Vance, and entirely explains Trump.
Instead of this statement vouching for Rep. Higgins, who is not noticeably repentant, I would throw it back to Speaker Johnson--why do have such a nasty racist for a good friend?
2 comments:
He's a "Dear Friend" should let everyone know that Porn Johnson is a horrible little racist and Bryon Donalds being quickly deployed to declare Higgins is now educated will allow the Corporate Media to move along the narrative of grace and do what they are paid to do; justify Republican perfidy and help them get re-elected.
Birds of a feather, all that. Walks like a duck, squawks like a racist
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