Columnist Roy S. Johnson writes, 'My Reasonable Republican friend says there's no 'safe space' in the party anymore for people such as him. Is he right?'
You’ve met him before, my Reasonable Republican friend. I’ve mentioned him in previous columns, shared his insights, his perspectives on some of the hot buttons out here making folks apoplectic.We’ve known each other since high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We’ve laughed and shared and debated for decades, so many we no longer calculate. Decades as we navigated the evolution of our respective lives. As he became a doctor, an OBGYN in Texas. As he obtained a Theology Master’s.
He’s exasperated with Republican lawmakers who hold their noses at any position or policy that might actually enhance lives. Like, in our state, Medicaid expansion. Or providing rural residents in places such as theHe’s even more agitated at the Republicans’ gluttony for red-meat social hot buttons. For Boogiemen.Like suppressing Black voters under a Trump-fueled delusion of fraud.Like whatever they were mad at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about during confirmation hearings.
Alright then. No, I told him, I don’t broad-brush all whites with the pitiable, commandment-defying antics of white Republican lawmakers—nationally or in our own blood-red state.—just as Bull Connor aimed firehoses at children just trying to live free almost 60 years ago.
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