With the promotion of racism and white supremacy under Donald Trump, the Republican Party is now facing within its midst ugly racism occurring, most notably, in Ohio and Florida.
In Ohio, Republican Gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, formerly a Republican Presidential contender in 2024, of Hindu Indian heritage and parents who are immigrants, with him having dark skin, is being subjected to verbal and other abuse by advocates of white Christian supremacy including Casey Putsch, who won 18 percent of the vote in the Ohio primary, and has been openly abusive about the background and heritage of Ramaswamy.
Meanwhile, in Florida, which has months until the Gubernatorial primary occurs in August, front runner Congressman Byron Donalds, who is African American but has a white wife, is being pilloried by James Fishback, who is a white supremacist, nativist, and Christian Nationalist.
Additionally, white supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes, who ironically is himself Hispanic, has gained a wide following with his racist, antisemitic, and sexist tirades, attracting lots of young men.
Christian nationalist pastors, and also Tucker Carlson, have added fuel to the fire as well.
While this author and blogger finds both Ramaswamy and Donalds distasteful to the extreme, it is shocking how they have become targets for more extreme Republicans than even they are, and are having to deal, therefore, with what Democrats have long had to cope with.
Republicans Don’t Need to Win Elections Anymore. They Just Need Their Judges.
“The Virginia Supreme Court nullifies three million votes, boosting Trump’s effort to rig the midterms.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/republicans-dont-need-to-win-elections-anymore-they-just-need-their-judges/
4 Takeaways From the Virginia Supreme Court Gerrymandering Decision
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/virginia-redistricting-gerrymandering-takeaways.html
How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court
“The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.”
https://www.the-downballot.com/p/how-virginia-democrats-can-overturn
The glaring error in the Virginia Supreme Court’s gerrymandering decision
https://www.vox.com/politics/488176/virginia-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision-republicans-win
Check out the video of Jamelle Bouie – who, in addition to writing for the NY Times, lives in Virginia – argues: “Democrats in Virginia — including the House speaker and Governor Spanberger — responded by accepting the ruling. That’s the wrong call. Three million people voted. A court of four cannot erase that. The right answer is the one Republicans in Ohio and Florida have already demonstrated: you make your ruling, you enforce it yourself. Anything less is unilateral disarmament — and Democrats who won’t fight on those terms should find another line of work.”
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice leaves Democratic Party over antisemitism concerns
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/pennsylvania-supreme-court-antisemitism-democratic-party-00914943
Democrats Can’t Let This Antisemitic Sex Therapist Win Her Runoff
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/maureen-galindo-antisemitic-conspiracies.html
Inside the wild fight to oust a top GOP Trump critic
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/11/thomas-massie-ed-gallrein-kentucky-aipac-trump
Massie’s heinous, but the reasons why Trump’s trying to oust him are bad as well…
This moderate Republican senator is already eyeing the exits 16 months into his term
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/11/sen-john-curtis-exploring-2028-run-for-utah-governor-00913981
The “mainstream media” loves calling Republicans who basically votes 100% with Trump “moderate”; it’s a sickness, really.