Louie Gohmert raises valid point in call to rename Democratic Party

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Louie Gohmert raises valid point in call to rename Democratic Party

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, arrives before President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE** more >

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By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Friday, July 24, 2020

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Rep. Louie Gohmert, Republican from Texas, introduced a resolution that would ban the Democratic Party, among other organizations, based on historical truths about the left’s embrace of racism and blatant support of slavery.

It’s a resolution that yes, is eye-widening — but at least it strikes the right spirit. At least it raises a valid point.

Democrats, after all, were slow to the civil rights march.

That’s not politics; that’s historical truth.

And with Black Lives Matter protesters busily tossing Molotov cocktails and bricks in the streets, and antifa thugs busily exploiting the whole so-called police-are-racist-and-brutal campaign to do some smashing and beating of their own, and Democrats in Congress, along with some of their Republican colleagues, busily removing any and all statues of individuals with ties to slavery — and supporting, either overtly or tacitly, the outright destruction and defacement and dismantling of similarly slavery-tied statues around the nation — Gohmert’s resolution at least advances the same message: Racism is bad. Racism must go. Those guilty of racism must be whitewashed from history.

Don’t want to be hypocritical, do we?

Gohmert, in a statement, said of his resolution: “A great portion of the history of the Democratic Party is filled with racism and hatred. Since people are demanding we rid ourselves of the entities, symbols, and reminders of the repugnant aspects of our past, then the time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination and the Ku Klux Klan.”