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Kamala Harris and her fellow Democrats may have been soundly rejected by the American people in last month’s election but racial fearmongering is a hard habit to break for a party steeped in identity politics.

The election of President-elect Donald J. Trump could usher in a return to a dark past, at least in the mind of race-baiting Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) who suggested that there could be a return to the days of Jim Crow.

On Friday, the Congressional Black Caucus kingfish, who’s still licking his wounds after the Harris debacle, appeared on CNN’s “Inside Politics” where he again regurgitated the tiresome lie that “democracy is at risk” and told Democrat activist anchor Dana Bash that “there’s a danger” that Jim Crow could be lurking just around the corner.

(Video: CNN)

The two were discussing Barack Obama’s big Thursday speech in Chicago where the former president called for unity while at the same time attacking Republicans, typically talking out of both sides of his mouth.

“I want to switch gears to something that former President Obama said. He made, I believe, his first comments since the election. He said this last night. I want you to take a listen,” Bash said as she teed up a clip from Obama’s speech.

“Talk of bridging our differences when the country and the world seemed so bitterly divided felt like an academic exercise, it felt farfetched, even naive. Especially since as far as they were concerned, the election proved that democracy’s pretty far down on people’s priority list,” Obama said.

“What do you make of the former president’s comments?” Bash asked.

“Well, I think they ring true. Not that they should be true but they have demonstrated that that is the case. If you know, you know me very well, and you know that I spent a lot of time studying history,” Clyburn responded. “I’ve talked about this election, even going in the run-up to the election from a historical standpoint. I seem to remember, as we were celebrating the 100th anniversary of this country’s existence, we had a presidential election in 1876 and you see what happened to democracy in that election, it led to Jim Crow.”

“I’m the ninth African-American to serve in Congress from South Carolina the problem is that 95 years between number eight and number nine because democracy was driven so far down on people’s lists back in 1876. There’s a danger of that happening again,” he added.

What Clyburn didn’t mention – nor was it brought up by Bash – is that the discriminatory Jim Crow laws that he referred to were a product of his very own Democratic Party, the party of the Ku Klux Klan, and slavery.

Unfortunately for Harris, for some reason, Clyburn’s formidable vote manufacturing machine was nullified this time around with Trump winning impressibly in all of the battleground states and taking the popular vote although the margin has been shaved considerably after a month of post-election counting and ballot harvesting in Democrat-controlled areas.

Perhaps it was at least partially attributable to black men saying goodbye to the Democrat plantation to vote for Trump in record numbers, a rejection of the racial browbeating from the likes of Clyburn and Obama.

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