Opinion by Theodore R. Johnson: Tim Scott is struggling to find his presidential message
A pulpit still clearly calls to him — but now it’s the bully one. On April 12, Scott took a step toward the White House byfor the 2024 presidential election. An apocalyptic civic spirit pulses through his announcement video, which was recorded at the site where the Civil War began, and declares that President Biden, and other progressives, are “indoctrinating our children to believe we live in an evil country.
The case for Scott begins where the thing necessarily starts: He is the Senate’s only Black Republican. For a party routinely accused of veiled and even overt racism, Scott is a genial counterargument. His presence makes the Republican brand more palatable to those who want an American conservatism without the racial resentment. Inside the party, he is the rare Republican who arrived with the tea party wave of 2010 but has not been defined by radicalism during the swift transition to Trumpism.
through abortion policy recently was evidence of his desire to appear uncompromising yet pragmatic, hard-right in policy but inclusive by personality. It is a difficult step to pull off.was impossible to ignore. From 2015 forward, Scott was the party’s most forthright voice on racial justice issues, holding court on the Senate floor in 2016 for three detailed speeches on his personal experience of racism.
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