Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), on the left in this picture but certainly not in Congress.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you
Rep. Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama:
“This is a part of the war on whites that’s being launched by the Democratic Party. And the way in which they’re launching this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else,” he said during an interview Monday with conservative radio host Laura Ingraham. "It's part of the strategy that Barack Obama implemented in 2008, continued in 2012, where he divides us all on race, on sex, greed, envy, class warfare, all those kinds of things. Well that’s not true.”
Man, if it's been waging a war on whites all this time, the Democratic Party is even less effective than I'd realized. Because whites are doing relatively well in this country. Sure, class warfare from above has been hard on the middle class, which was historically overwhelmingly white, so if you compare how middle-class white people are doing now to how they were doing 20 or 50 years ago, the picture is bad. But compared to non-white people? Whites are doing just fine, despite this alleged war on them.
And if President Obama has been a divider, well, it's because some people—not all white people, but some of them—can't look at a black man in a position of authority and not run screaming off to the fringes, dividing themselves from the rest of the nation through their own racism. Lord knows this president has tried to reach out—endlessly, fruitlessly—to Republicans and everyone else.
But these rich white Republicans in positions of power will let go of their victimization narrative when you pry it from their cold, dead hands.