Posted BY: Steve Watson
In a popcorn-munching Twitter thread posted Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz gave Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a much-needed education on the racist history of the Democratic Party, as well as a plethora of activities in the present that contribute to hampering people of color.
AOC asked for it after liberal “political scientist” Norm Ornstein charged that the Texas senator would have been “first in line” to filibuster the Civil Rights Act and Jim Crow.
Cruz responded, noting that the Democratic Party filibustered the Civil Rights Act, while many more Republicans supported it:
Nonsense. That shameful filibuster was led by Democrats—your party.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 23, 2023
My party—the Republicans—proudly voted for the Civil Rights Act in much higher percentages than the racist Dems. https://t.co/MgPZZFTlak
AOC just couldn’t help herself…
Why don’t you go ahead and tell people what happened to the parties after that, Ted https://t.co/fiJgIgVZHO
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 23, 2023
Cruz obliged her:
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1/x Sure.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 23, 2023
– First, the Dem party founded the KKK.
– Then the Dem party wrote Jim Crow laws.
– Then the Dem party filibustered the Civil Rights Act. https://t.co/ix3fACqwkB
3/x – The Republican Party was founded to oppose slavery.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 23, 2023
– Our first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln, who won the Civil War and ended slavery.
– It was Republicans who voted for the civil Rights Act in a much higher percentage than racist Dems.
5/x
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 23, 2023
– Today, (in 2017) I passed the largest expansion of federal school choice EVER (making 529 plans cover K-12), over the objection of ever single Senate Dem.
6/x
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 23, 2023
– Also, just two years ago, the Dem governor of Virginia had put the photo of A MAN DRESSED AS A KKK KLANSMAN on his personal yearbook page.
– And today, the sitting Dem President—Joe Biden—gave in 2011 a flowery eulogy for an “Exalted Cyclops” of the KKK.
Ouch. Cruz broke out the pantsuit line again.
Why don’t you go ahead and tell people what happened to the parties after that, Ted https://t.co/fiJgIgVZHO
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 23, 2023
