Republican grammatical errors are flying thicker and faster than insults to humanity by Donald Trump. This time, it's Jeff Kaufmann, the chairman of the GOP in Iowa, who harrumphed on talk radio about right-wing outrage over the Confederate battle flag.
"There are 17,000 young Iowa men that [sic] are laying [sic] in graves that [sic] fought against that very flag and everything it stood for," he said, committing multiple oopsies.
Of course, those brave Iowans have been lying in their graves for 150 years now, but we get what Kaufmann is saying. And we applaud him for reminding people in general that the Confederate flag is a symbol of rebellion against the United States.
What we think is really amusing, though — besides his misuse of the English language — is Kaufmann's stated refusal to "tolerate" having the flag issue linked to his party. Because oh, how it does. And no matter how many Nikki Haleys and Paul Thurmonds are out there in the world, oh, how it will.
As we cats have pointed out many times before, Republicans have coddled and petted and encouraged racists for 50 years — ever since the Confederate flag-wavers deserted the Democratic Party over civil rights and were welcomed with open arms by the GOP. It was called the Southern Strategy. You could look it up.
So don't try to tell anybody that your party isn't complicit with all this hate, Jeff Kaufmann. All the outrageous statements these days — from anti-gay to anti-African American to anti-immigrant to anti-Muslim to anti-you-name-it — are coming from Republicans. Time to own that. Until you do, we cats HISS.
(IMAGE: Stuart Carlson, Universal Press Syndicate)
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