Well, at least you can’t fault Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett for hiding behind racial dog whistles. Instead, she uses plain old whistles, loud and proud.
Crockett, a combative presence heretofore best known outside of progressive and/or woke circles for a viral contentious insult contest with GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during a thoroughly bonkers House Oversight Committee hearing last year, is apparently going mainstream — which might not sit well with the rest of the Democratic Party, but should keep us conservatives thoroughly entertained between now and Inauguration Day, at least.
Take her interview with Vanity Fair, published last week. (Please, as Henny Youngman might say if he were the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.) Title: “Jasmine Crockett on Her ‘Old as S***’ Colleagues, the White-Woman Vote, and More 2024 Insights.”
OK, so she’s not a member of the Beltway gerontocracy, but Crockett is 43, so — at the risk of pulling a Don Lemon — let’s slow our roll on that one; Joe Biden was almost a decade younger when he began his tenure on Capitol Hill, and he started in the Senate, where the minimum age is five years higher.
Also, her “insights,” such as they may be, on the “white-woman vote” also probably aren’t going to be welcomed by the people in her party who have to like, win national elections — but I’m rooting against them, so please keep talking. […]
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