Opinion: #Trump's #GOP #excuses #racists, #loons and #criminals. There's no #bottom anymore.

What matters here is less the #racist #rant of a decidedly #doltish #dipstick like #GOP #Rep. #ClayHiggins and more the #ease with which #Trump-era #Republicans excuse the #monsters in their midst.

— They excuse them, because they see themselves in the monsters. The image in the next post explains it better than I ever could...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/09/30/trump-republicans-racism-robinson-higgins/75410318007/

"What Higgins wrote is despicable, but he got permission to write it from Donald Trump and J.D. Vance."

~ Mary Trump

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/6

https://www.marytrump.org/p/a-very-principled-man

#ExpelHiggins

~ Scott Dworkin

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/5

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/expel-clay-higgins-for-his-racist

"The Republican party is always going to struggle to disassociate itself from cranks and racists. But it becomes futile even to try when a racist crank sits atop the party as god-emperor."

~ Andrew Egger

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-walked-so-clay-higgins-could

"Higgins has styled himself a 'Cajun John Wayne,' which again is code for 'willing to commit violence in the name of white justice.' The GOP is now openly racist and proud of it, but the hate and violence was always just on simmer, ready to boil over as soon as the heat could be turned back up by a demagogue like Trump."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/3

"As the Washington Post reported, back in 2016 Higgins, the 'brash, outspoken captain of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s office' in Louisiana, resigned after appearing in a video calling a group of predominantly black gang members 'animals,' 'thugs' and 'heathens.'

Higgins’s behavior is part of a long pattern of using his office to promote racism, violence and lies."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/2

Kuo notes:

"Higgins also has a telling, disturbing past in law enforcement, having had to resign twice from different police forces. The first was from the Opelousas police force in 2007 after assaulting an unarmed Black man and lying about it. ….

The second incident bears remarkable similarity to his tweet yesterday that created a political storm."

#ClayHiggins #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Haitians #immigrants #racism #Louisiana #xenophobia #PoliticsofHate
/2

"Congressman #ClayHiggins of #Louisiana decided to dial up the #racism

...called #Haitians “wild,” doubled down on the false claim they are “eating pets,” misspelled “voodoo,” called #Haiti the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere,” and referred to Haitians collectively as “thugs”...

More ominously, he directly threatened them, saying they “better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.”"
- @jaykuo

@WarnerCrocker

@flexghost Let’s not forget that the #racist #BananaRepublican #ClayHiggins ‘represents’ the #LA03 Congressional District of #Louisiana ; the southwestern corner of the state and includes Lafayette, Lake Charles, and New Iberia.
#DoNotCollaborateWithFascists #USpol

On the #House floor, Horsford introduced a #censure resolution against #ClayHiggins. In a statement shortly thereafter, Minority Leader #HakeemJeffries (D-NY) said Higgins “must be held accountable for dishonorable conduct that is unbecoming of a Member of #Congress.”

#House Speaker #MikeJohnson, also a #Louisiana #Republican, told reporters #ClayHiggins was approached by colleagues who told him the post was “offensive.” Johnson said he then spoke to Higgins about it, after which Higgins “prayed about it & he regretted it & he pulled the post down.”

“That’s what you want the gentleman to do,” Johnson said. [I want him not to do it in the first place & he’s definitely NOT a gentleman]

#Racism #WhiteNationalism #WhiteSupremacy #StochasticTerrorism #VoteBlue

The remarks were called out & he deleted the post, though he has not yet issued an apology.

The sideshow unfolded on the #House floor Wednesday evening as representatives convened to vote on a spending bill to avert a #GovernmentShutdown. Rep #StevenHorsford (D-NV) confronted #ClayHiggins on the floor & asked him to take down the post.

@GottaLaff more on what a violent & racist POS #ClayHiggins
Ex-cop resigned in disgrace, ex-wife said he put a gun to her head. Hopefully he will soon be an ex-Congressman.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/clay-higgins-racist-tweet-springfield-gun-wives-nazi-david-duke/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=35aac430-dad9-4721-a480-ce5493c184ad&utm_campaign=Hootsuite