California Gov. Gavin Newsom survived the recall election and will remain in office. This ends a process that began in March with the deadline to submit nearly two million legitimate signatures to recall Newsom. While there was some initial doubt that Newsom would survive, it is hardly a surprise. The events leading up to the recall should be the main takeaway from this election — more specifically, the fact that Larry Elder was attacked by a gorilla-masked white woman, and Democrats said nothing.
For all of the public outcries about racism and white supremacy by Democrats over the past two years, their silence about such explicitly racist violence against Elder was deafening. One need not support a particular candidate or his or her ideas to call out bigotry or prejudice. And not only did Democrats not call it out, they incited it. It should be abundantly clear now: Democrats don’t really care about racism against black people.
Sure, Democrats style themselves as defenders of racial justice, but where there is no political incentive to intervene, they are nowhere to be found. This is something Republicans and conservatives have known for years; it is something America hopefully realized with the attack on Elder.
Furthermore, factual analysis of the past four years reinforces the notion that Democrats only care about racism when there’s something in it for them. Then-Sen. Kamala Harris publicly condemned racism and announced her support for now-disgraced actor Jussie Smollett, who falsely claimed he was the victim of a hate crime. Harris failed to show any outrage over the attack on Elder.
When it came to Nicholas Sandmann, the Covington Catholic High School student falsely accused of racist bullying, actress and activist Debra Messing didn’t even wait for facts before tweeting that she would be “ashamed and appalled if he was my son.” Messing said exactly nothing about the attack on Elder by a white woman mocking him as if he were an ape.
Alyssa Milano also bashed Sandmann, as did former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean. “Covington Catholic high school seems like a hate factory to me,” Dean tweeted at the time. This was all done over a smirk by a teenager who actually did nothing wrong. Neither Milano nor Dean said anything about a white woman wearing a gorilla mask attacking a black man running for office — it’s hard to get much more over-the-top racist than that.
Other such examples are too numerous to mention. And it all goes to reveal the outrage, the denunciations, the vilification — it is all done for show. Democrats weaponize racial tension for their own benefit yet lack any genuine concern about racism when it doesn’t benefit them. Only a fool would think otherwise.
