One can mark the steep decline our country has been on with the advent of Ronald Reagan’s Morning in America presidency. But, like everything with the GOP, the myth-making around how great a president dear ol’ Reagan was has been inflated to the level of rainbow unicorn ridiculous in their imaginations. He was a criminal who should have been impeached and thrown out of office for violating the Boland Amendment.
With the announcement that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will finally be hanging up his robe and retiring, the Democratic Party has a chance to nominate a justice that technically cannot be stolen away by Mitch McConnell. President Biden has long made a pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, and there are quite a few well-regarded candidates being written about as a result. Since the last two Supreme Court justices placed on the court by unpopular president Donald Trump were tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum, the right-wing of the country is stretching itself to complain that the potential nomination of a Black woman to the Supreme Court is reverse racism.*
The argument goes that in campaigning on and promoting one’s intentions to put a woman of color on the Supreme Court, President Biden is discriminating against all of those white people willing to do the bidding of the Federalist Society. Of course, many news outlets are pointing out that the pope of the GOP, Ronald Reagan, made a similar promise back when he was doing sketchy shit to win the presidency of the United States. This has forced right-wingers along the entire spectrum of the GOP, from the duplicitous and craven Sen. Susan Collins to the scary fascist Sen. Josh Hawley, to distance themselves from, and set themselves at odds with, their last made-up example of a successful Republican administration.
*The term “reverse racism” is an acknowledgment that the person claiming it is an ignorant racist.
