This Guy Gets It. 

Have ya heard that a Southern Democrat held a press conference and said he was now a Republican? I introduce Elbert Guillroy, the Louisiana state senator who became the state’s first black Republican legislator since Reconstruction. Roll tape.

Senator Guillroy touched on the Republican party’s history, pointing to its role in the abolitionist movement; its first president, Abraham Lincoln; Republican authorship of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments; and Dwight Eisenhower’s championing of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 — and Democratic opposition to such movements.

He also criticized of the failed efforts of the Democratic party — “the party of disappointment” – to help minority communities through various government programs. “At the heart of liberalism is the idea that only a great and powerful government can be the benefactor for social justice for all Americans,” he said. ”But the Left is only concerned with one thing: control — and they disguise this ‘control’ as charity.” The idea that “blacks, or anyone for that matter, need the government to get ahead in life is despicable,” he said.

Welcome to the Party.