Opinion by Paul Waldman: What Nikki Haley and Tim Scott are offering Republicans
Scott’s message is that racism is not an institutional or systemic problem but an individual failing. That’s precisely what conservatives want to hear, so they can say, “Wellnot a racist!” Which means we don’t have to do much of anything about racism, especially systemic racism, other than getting rid of what Scott calls “Scott talks about getting pulled over, but he inevitably turns back to the story of racial progress.
That’s what Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign offered liberals : the opportunity to believe that a new and final racial reconciliation was possible. As a student at the University of South Carolina in 2008, Jefferson was at Obama’s victory party after the state’s primary where supporters “Race doesn’t matter! Race doesn’t matter!” — their hearts bursting with the promise of a post-racial America.“It’s so enticing,” Jefferson says about the idea of inexorable racial progress, but “these moments are often met with backlash.” Like the one we’re in right now.
The Trumpist political project is built on that backlash, which could make candidates like Haley and Scott even more valuable to the Republican Party as living testaments to the GOP’s supposed commitment to racial equality. They seem committed to a version of history that sanitizes the past — not to mention the GOP’s racial politics — and makes us all participants in a tale of triumphant reconciliation., they claim to be the true warriors for equality.
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