Say what you will about Trump being a cartoonish clown, he does seem to have had an effect on the GOP. Specifically, they seem to be rediscovering not only that they were born with spines but also senses of humor. Take Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. Today the Big Big News was that Senator Elizabeth Warren, who Trump has mocked for years for her claim of being a Native American (a claim she used to boost her career at Harvard as a “woman of color”), released results of a genetic test which showed that she is somewhere between 1/64 and 1/1024 native American. In fact, due to native American DNA not being terribly well catalogued, she actually is 1/64 to 1/1024 latin American. For someone whose career was basically made by dint of affirmative action based on the hypothesized existence of a far-distant ancestor9or at least that was what she tried to do), she spent much of the day declaring victory. But Orrin Hatch responded with a single simple tweet:
These DNA tests are quite something. pic.twitter.com/tCHmW7pJbj
— Senator Hatch Office (@senorrinhatch) October 15, 2018
Ha. And indeed, ha.
Republicans would do well to keep both their spines and their humor. In 1996, Clinton Soundly trounced Bob Dole. Dole was, seemingly, dry and humorless, traits that did not serve him well against the charismatic Clinton. And as soon as Dole had lost and the pressure was off, he went onto shows like Letterman, where he showed himself to be a naturally humorous guy. *That* Dole might have beaten Clinton.
But here’s the interesting thing:
White Americans
White Americans (European Americans) on average are: 98.6 percent European, 0.19 percent African and 0.18 percent Native American.
Ummm. 1/1024 ~ 0.1 percent. So the average Whitey McWhiteAmericanGuy may well be more native American than Elizabeth Warren.