Resigning Colorado Rep Ripped Critical Race Theory

Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) chats with employees earlier than doing one other tv interview on the Home facet of the U.S. Capitol on February 6, 2024, in Washington, D.C. | Supply: The Washington Put up / Getty

The GOP is down one ultra-conservative, crucial race theory-hating congressman now that Colorado Rep. Ken Buck has formally introduced he’s vacating his seat on the finish of subsequent week. For Republicans, Buck’s departure is a blow to their Home majority, which was already slim, that means that for Democrats, this can be a celebratory second.

However what’s attention-grabbing is the rationale Buck now not needs something to do with Congress.

Primarily, Buck says he’s uninterested in all of the back-and-forth between events and inside events, and he additionally seems to agree with a lot of the nation {that a} alternative between Joe Biden and Donald Trump as president is principally a vote for which turd is much less smelly.

“It’s the worst yr of the 9 years and three months that I’ve been in Congress and having talked to former members, it’s the worst yr in 40, 50 years to be in Congress,” Buck advised CNN’s Dana Bash. “However I’m leaving as a result of I believe there’s a job to do on the market.”

“This place has simply devolved into this bickering and nonsense and not likely doing the job for the American folks,” he continued.

Buck was requested whether or not Trump turning into the presumptive Republican nominee had something to do with him leaping ship, to which he responded, “Whether or not he was the nominee or not, I believe our system is damaged in how we select candidates and I need to get entangled in that course of.”

“In every single place I’m going in Colorado, Dana, I hear that individuals are not proud of Trump they usually’re not proud of Biden,” Buck added. “I’m going to seek out the correct group to hitch and I’m going to begin engaged on that situation. We’ve to have higher candidates up and down the poll.”

Because it seems, one of many causes Buck is fed up together with his personal social gathering is because of its near-universal backing of Trump’s baseless election denial. Actually, I’d sort of like this man—if I didn’t learn about him. However Buck is just a damaged white nationalist clock that’s nonetheless able to being proper at the very least twice a day.

In 2021, he all however admitted to stoking outrage over CRT and “boys taking part in ladies’ sports activities” as a political technique to provoke Republican voters.

Two years earlier than that, he was certainly one of practically two dozen Home Republicans who voted in opposition to a decision to sentence antisemitism, racism and bigotry.

However whereas condemning white supremacy wasn’t a precedence for the soon-to-be former congressman, he had loads of time to reintroduce a invoice to defund curriculum impressed by Nikole Hannah-Jones‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning historic framework, The 1619 Mission.

And whereas Buck seems to oppose Trump as a consequence of his election fraud propaganda, he didn’t appear to take situation with the previous president’s racism as he voted in opposition to censuring Trump over racist feedback he made in the direction of the Black and brown congresswomen who make up “The Squad,” amongst different racist remarks.

Nonetheless, on this occasion, it’s sort of onerous to be mad at a GOP member who has pissed off his social gathering the best way Buck has.

From CNN:

The Colorado Republican’s departure from the Home will shake up the chamber’s partisan breakdown, the place Republicans management solely a really slim majority – a serious problem for Speaker Mike Johnson who has continuously been compelled to depend on votes from Democrats in addition to Republicans to get main items of laws throughout the end line.

Buck’s determination to step down earlier than the tip of his time period will trim Republicans’ slim edge to 218 seats over 213 for Democrats, with three vacancies. With that breakdown, Republicans may solely afford to lose two votes to move laws on a party-line vote.

Welp, good luck with all that.