Florida Sen. Rick Scott’s dystopian plan imposing a massive tax hike on poor families and retirees also features a pathetic, truly stupid proposal to finish the insurrectionist president’s border wall, and then name it after him.
Fourth on his “11 point plan to rescue America” is a proposal to “secure our border, finish building the wall, and name it after President Donald Trump.” Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, claims the ex-president’s “plan to build a wall was right.”
“We welcome those who want to join us in building the American dream, immigrants who want to be Americans, not change America,” Scott continued, getting awfully close to some white supremacist “replacement theory” there. Just in case anyone thinks that’s a bit of a stretch: Scott’s committee has already been churning out ads pushing racist tropes, include images of Black migrants at the border.
Sure, Scott’s plan claims he welcomes immigrants who want to be Americans, just not those kind of immigrants.
“No one will enter without our permission,” the plan states further on. “We lock our doors at night, not because we hate the people on the outside, but because we love the people on the inside and want to keep them safe.”
What a shame that Scott doesn’t believe that about his own colleagues, voting to overturn the results of the 2020 election after white insurrectionists had ransacked the U.S. Capitol and endangered their lives. Scott (along with Sen. Marco Rubio) also opposed a bipartisan commission investigating the attack. “What people did that day—I was here—is despicable,” he claimed. But his vote and stance said otherwise.
Now he wants to waste more money on finishing a racist, “12th century proposal that was designed to flip off Latin America and lie that Mexico would end up paying for the wall,” says immigration reform advocacy group America’s Voice. Presumably the new wall would be paid for by the retired grandparents Scott wants to burden with taxes, since Mexico still won’t pay for the fucking thing.
“This is a perfect encapsulation of Trump, his destructive presidency and the continued GOP loyalty to a failed president,” said America’s Voice Campaigns Manager Mario Carrillo. “Instead of confronting Trump’s extremism and incompetence, the party is whitewashing his chaos and cruelty on immigration and at the border.”
Daily Kos’ Joan McCarter wrote earlier Wednesday about how Scott is furiously backpedaling on the tax portion of his plan, insisting “in a gobbledygook statement provided to the The Washington Post that it’s not a tax hike on the 99%, even though it clearly is.”
He hasn’t walked back the wall proposal, though—god forbid he upset the insurrectionist president. They are pathetic for being too fearful to think for themselves, and they are pathetic for the ass-kissing, too.
“Instead of solutions, Republicans want cheap stunts, MAGA loyalty contests, and failed deterrence policies,” Carrillo continued. “But it’s on-brand for a GOP that is now a post-policy party, entirely focused on white grievance politics and quite comfortable embracing racist conspiracy theories, dangerous consequences be damned, and stoking fear about immigrants in an attempt to retake power.”
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