Ted Cruz put Mazie Hirono in her place and taught her a little about history...
Mazie Hirono:
"There's absolutely no question that racial discrimination existed in our country and in many place in many places people would argue that it still does. And so we had all kinds of ways to keep black people from voting. We had poll taxes. We had literate literacy tests. We had I, I, I, I think they, uh, some places even required them to count how many jelly beans were in a jar. All kinds of ways to keep black people from voting. Of course she's arguing about the 'Save America Act' and the redistricting shut down in VA.
Ted Cruz wasn't going to let her just spewed things without knowing history...
Cruz: Mr. Chamberlain, when when Senator Hirono says we had pole taxes, I want to ask you, who "we" is and in particular, what party was it that implemented poll taxes in the South?
Chamberlain: I mean, I don't want to necessarily speak in every single case, but I'm pretty confident it was mostly the Democrats.
Uh, and what party was it that put literacy tests in, in place in the South?
Same answer. Mostly the Democrats.
And what party was it that had tests like how many jelly beans are in a bottle?
The Democrats.
You know, this is textbook Democrat fragility. Hirono tries to slam the Supreme Court's recent ruling against racial gerrymandered maps as racist itself by acting like minorities can't win elections anymore without skin color engineering. But then Cruz expertly hits her with the receipts by pointing out that the Democrat party has been built on racial discrimination for its entire history. slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the KKK as their enforcement arm.
Republicans, the Party of Lincoln, passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th and led to the fight for civil rights. By the way, the Democrats voted overwhelmingly against the Civil Rights Act and the 19th Amendment which gave voting rights to all American - women and every race. All the while the Democrats resisted every step of the way. The same people who invented these race-based power plays now scream racism, the second course enforced colorblind district. It's once again the soft bigotry of low expectations, assuming that minority voters need rigged maps instead of competing on ideas, which is why black and Hispanic support for Republicans keeps rising because Americans have seen through all of this woke DEI nonsense and are done being divided by race for Democrat advantage.
Cruz: The Republican party was literally founded to oppose slavery. We came into existence because slavery was a grotesque evil. And it was President Lincoln, the first Republican president, who signed the Emancipation Pro uh proclamation, who won the Civil War, and that resulted in the freeing of the slaves and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. The Democrats for the entire history of their party have been a party based on racial discrimination . They affirmatively embrace it. They support it. The Democrats are fond of telling this story that is, and I wish I could find a kinder way to say it, a flatout lie. That without discriminating based on race, that no African-Americans will be elected and no Hispanics will be elected.
You know, say what you want about Cruz, but moments like this are where he shines because he's absolutely right. The Republican Party was founded in the 1850s specifically to stop the spread of slavery, which was Democrats core institution. Lincoln ended it and Democrats seceded to preserve it. Then rolled out black codes and Jim Crow to maintain control. Today, it's just rebranded as racial gerrymandering, DEI, and packing minorities into safe blue districts to waste their votes and protect power elsewhere. I mean, this isn't Martin Luther King's content of their character vision. It's the exact opposite. Democrats remain obsessed with sorting Americans by race because they know that it's one of the only ways left that they have a chance of staying in charge. And the party switch myth that they always love to push is just pure projection. As the parties realigned on principles, Republicans embraced limited government and equal opportunity. And MAGA's growing minority support proves it because real results beat race baiting every single time.
The Democrats are now clutching their pearls that seats drawn to elect liberal Democrats in the South are going to go away. You may get black Republicans instead. Indeed, in Tennessee, they're freaking out that a liberal white guy who's a Democrat is likely going to lose his seat to an African-American woman who's a Republican. And they say that's horrible racial oppression. Which party has egregiously abused gerrymandering for decades? Both parties are guilty of. But which, who, who has been the worst offender? And in particular, take New England. How many Republicans are elected from all of New England in the House of Representative s?
I think the answer to that is zero.
Zero. They've drawn every district in a naked gerrymander. And yet they're very upset that their illegal pursuit of power has now been stopped by the Supreme Court that is enforcing the Constitution and prohibiting the racial gerrymandering and discrimination their party is built on.
So, what did Hirono have to say about what Cruz did?
I feel personally aggrieved to sit here and to be lectured by my colleague from Texas.
Uh... You deserved to be lectured on because you're ignorant of history. So, Hirono threw the victim card out instead of addressing what Cruz says... She knows he's 100% correct.
