Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t possibly get any lower, they easily proves us wrong by tweeting a racist stereotype of the Irish as drunks. Using racism to attack a presidential candidate. Brilliant strategy, not!
Republicans are concerned about Robert Francis O’Rourke and they don’t care to attack the Irish as drunks to make a point. That point is what?? The racist tweet is being ratio’ed big time, as you can well imagine.
Some of the replies are the brutal truth, like this one.
This brings me to this passage in Andrew McCabe’s book. In it, he claimed former Attorney General Jeff Sessions used the same type of Irish racist trope about why the FBI should hire Irish employees. Seems very familiar to me.
In one particularly shocking exchange, Sessions reportedly told McCabe the FBI was a better organization when “you all only hired Irishmen.” Drawing on archaic and offensive stereotypes, he clarified, “They were drunks but they could be trusted. Not like all those new people with nose rings and tattoos—who knows what they’re doing?”
The Republican Party is bringing back anti-Irish sentiment under Donald Trump. The party of racism in plain sight. Make sure all your friends sees this one, because the GOP is nothing more than an equal opportunity hate group.