A former top judge in Texas is ditching the Republican Party to support Democrats because of what she claimed was President Trump’s racist ideology and the GOP’s embrace of him.
Elsa Alcala, a Latina who served on Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, castigated Trump in a Monday Facebook post.
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“It has taken me years to say this publicly but here I go. President Trump is the worst president in the history of this country,” Alcala wrote. “Even accepting that Trump has had some successes — and I believe these are few — at his core, his ideology is racism. To me, nothing positive about him could absolve him of his rotten core.”
Alcala noted that part of her frustration stemmed from Trump’s tweets over the weekend that targeted a group of minority women who are liberal freshmen in Congress. “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” he said. The liberal “squad” with whom he is engaged in a war of words is comprised of Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts. Omar was born in Somalia, and the other three were born in the U.S.
Alcala, who was appointed to Texas’ highest criminal court by then-Gov. Rick Perry in 2011 and retired late last year, told the American-Statesman that Trump “speaks about brown people like me as lesser beings” and felt that the Republican Party “left me.”
She wrote on Facebook that she would vote in the Democratic primary, noting that “any of the viable Democratic presidential candidates are superior to the status quo.”
