The party that invented DEI, critical race theory, and mandatory sensitivity training is currently tearing itself apart over race in the Texas Democrat Senate primary. A white Democrat state rep allegedly called a Black former congressman a “mediocre Black man” — and it went viral on TikTok, because of course it did.
Good grief! The party that lectures the rest of us about systemic racism 24 hours a day just had one of its own candidates deploy the most casually racist insult imaginable — against a fellow Democrat. On social media. In a primary election. You can’t make this stuff up, folks!
Here’s the backstory. Texas State Rep. James Talarico is running in the Democrat Senate primary, which takes place on March 3rd. A TikTok influencer went viral with the claim that Talarico referred to former Rep. Colin Allred as a “mediocre Black man.” Allred, you may recall, is the guy who got steamrolled by Ted Cruz in the 2024 Senate race.
So let’s get this straight. Colin Allred already lost to Ted Cruz — which is humiliating enough. Now a fellow Democrat is out there calling him “mediocre” on top of it. The man can’t catch a break from anyone, including his own party.
Talarico’s defense? He called the allegation a “mischaracterization.”
Not a denial. A “mischaracterization.”
For those of you keeping score at home, “mischaracterization” is what politicians say when they absolutely said the thing but wish they hadn’t said it in front of a camera. It’s the political equivalent of “taken out of context,” which is itself the political equivalent of “please stop playing the tape.”
We love that TikTok is where this blew up, by the way. The Democrats spent years trying to ban TikTok because it was Chinese spyware. Now their own primary is being destroyed by a TikTok influencer. Poetic justice doesn’t usually deliver this fast.
The Texas primary is just one of at least five competitive Democrat Senate primaries across the country right now. And here’s the part that should make every Democrat donor reach for the Pepto-Bismol: these primaries aren’t competitive because the party is bursting with talent and fresh ideas. They’re competitive because Democrat voters are furious at their own party.
That’s right. These no-name Democrats running against each other aren’t mad at Big Orange. They’re mad at their own party — the same geniuses who told us Kamala Harris was “electable” and then watched her lose by 77 electoral votes.
(You’d think they might want to stop taking advice from those people, but here we are.)
Can you blame them? The Democrats still have no idea what happened to them in 2024. Their response to Trump’s State of the Union address was so embarrassing it looked like someone had tasered half the caucus. Some of them clapped. Some sat on their hands. A few looked like they were trying to disappear into their chairs. It was like watching a room full of people who all got different instructions on what to do when the music stopped.
The Democrat Party’s bench is so thin right now that their best campaign strategy appears to be calling each other racial slurs on TikTok. Bold move! We’re sure the DNC’s new communist chairman from Minnesota is working on a real zinger of a response as we speak.
(“We at the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party condemn all forms of racism, unless it’s happening in one of our own primaries, in which case it’s a mischaracterization.”)
The Democrats love to tell us that they’re the party of diversity and inclusion. They’ve built an entire industry around it — DEI consultants, implicit bias trainers, “anti-racism” book clubs, the whole nine yards. They will cancel you, fire you, and destroy your career if you say the wrong thing about race at work.
But when it’s primary season in Texas? Apparently you can call a Black colleague “mediocre” and just wave it off as a “mischaracterization.” If a Republican had said that, CNN would run a 72-hour panel discussion and Al Sharpton would already be on a plane to Houston.
The broader picture is even funnier. The Democrats are at historic levels of unpopularity. They lost the White House, the Senate, and the House in 2024. You’d think an epic defeat like that would have made them take a long look in the mirror — you know, regroup and whatnot? We’re happy to report that nothing like that has happened! Instead, they’re calling each other names on TikTok while five other Senate primaries turn into cage matches.
If you need a visual aid for what a political party looks like right before it completely disintegrates, just pull up the Texas Democrat primary. They’re not fighting Republicans. They’re fighting each other. And they’re losing both fights.
We should probably send the Texas Democrats a thank-you card. Every time we think the content well is running dry, they do something like this. A white Democrat calling a Black Democrat “mediocre” — on TikTok — in the party that cancels people for using the wrong pronoun?
That’s not a primary. That’s a comedy special. And we’ve got front-row seats.
