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, the House Freedom Caucus demagogued Black history, invoking Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, to nominate under-experienced Rep. Byron Donald for speaker. But based on a serious reading of GOP history and Black history, I would nominate former House Whip Rep. James Clyburn . After all, the first African American to be seated in Congress and the first to preside over the House was another Black South Carolinian, the Republican and Reconstruction era congressman, Joseph H. Rainey.
So long as we’re talking Cheneys, why not go back to the Old Original, who after all learned to count votes during his stint as minority whip back in the 1980s? The family’s outspokenness about January 6 would pry loose a certain number of Democratic votes.
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