One of the Tennessee GOP Senate hopefuls is a reactionary doctor (this is a trend–more on that later) named Manny Sethi. Ted Cruz is actively campaigning for Sethi, whose commercials feature the allegation that his opponent gave lots of money to Mitt Romney. That should tell you everything you need to know about his politics.
The latest Sethi ad includes the usual footage of cities being burned and statues being toppled. Sethi’s comment on this is that these people hate America. He, on the other hand, loves America. That, apparently, is reason enough to vote for him.
What Sethi is actually saying in these ads is that conservative, gun-loving, white Christians with at least one foot in the Confederacy are America, and the rest of us are just interlopers. If that is your idea of what America is, it is no surprise that the hundreds of millions of people who are being excluded aren’t fans.
There will be no peace in this country until people like Sethi are convinced, one way or another, that the rest of us are real Americans, too.