California Gov. Newsom’s Senate pick of Laphonza Butler is about virtue signaling. She was chosen for characteristics, not character. That's not what civil rights fights were about.
Whatever happened to competence as a standard of expected performance? Or qualifications? Or sexual privacy? These virtues that were once the cornerstone for liberal Democrats are out the door in today’s Democrat Party. As the son of a civil rights leader and former NAACP chapter president whose family desegregated our neighborhood in north central Indiana, I have experienced firsthand the progress that our country has made. However, what we see with liberal politicians is not progress.
Aside from her racial and sexual identity, Newsom’s pick is apparently a fundraising machine, having raised millions of dollars for pro-choice candidates nationwide. That rolodex of donors will be awfully nice for his eventual run for president when he figures out how to dump Biden. When I was elected attorney general of Indiana in 2016, voters saw a candidate aligned with their political beliefs.
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