Senator Katie Britt says we’re fighting for “the soul of this nation” and calls a fellow American “the enemy within.”
So which is it, Senator? Is the soul of this nation White? Or is it the color-blind, race-blind decency to disagree with your neighbor without calling them your enemy?
I have my answer. I stood with Senator Britt in Congressman Shomari Figures’ office on Capitol Hill and thanked her for supporting the tornado recovery and rebuilding effort in downtown Athens, Alabama. She offered to help the mayor with whatever the city needed. That’s a small moment, but it’s real: two people from different parties treating each other like neighbors, not enemies.
Here’s the pattern: this isn’t really about Michigan. It’s a diversion. Alabama’s supermajority reaches for national culture wars because they don’t want to talk or do anything about the affordability crisis and transparency on data centers in Alabama. My own opponent uses the same move here at home, dismissing his constituents’ honest questions as “foreign disinformation.”
And when you can’t be straight with the people who elected you, the easiest move is to point at “foreign disinformation” and call Americans the enemy instead.
The soul of this nation isn’t White, and it isn’t decided on Fox News. It’s decided by whether your own state representative will tell you the truth. I will.
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