For a Republican, watching the Democratic Party’s own machinery grind down one of its most vocal identity-politics standard-bearers is a rare pleasure. And according to a new American Thinker commentary, no one delivers that gift quite like former Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
The piece, written by Marcus Ebenhack, celebrates Crockett’s defeat in the Democratic Senate primary to James Talarico — a white, male progressive — and argues that the party’s treatment of Crockett reveals a deep hypocrisy. It’s a dynamic that should have Republicans cheering, the author suggests, because it exposes the Democrats’ real priority: not identity, not working-class uplift, but raw political power.
The ‘Jasmine from the hood’ routine
Crockett, who represented a Texas congressional district, is described by Ebenhack as “AOC but darker, though no less daft.” He notes that she grew up in an upper-middle-class academic household and attended Rosati-Kain Academy, a private school with tuition around $16,000 a year — hardly the ‘hood origin story she often invokes in speeches. Her “Jasmine from the hood” shtick, he argues, is a performance designed to resonate with voters, drawing comparisons to Hillary Clinton’s famous “I ain’t no ways tired” moments.
But the real point of the commentary isn’t Crockett’s biography. It’s the irony of a party built on identity politics abandoning a Black woman when it counts.
A party that preaches inclusion but practices exclusion
Ebenhack acknowledges that Crockett has a legitimate grievance. Black female Democratic candidates are often treated as risky bets, he writes, because party elites fear general-election voters will reject them based on race and gender. This happens even as the party relies on winning more than 90 percent of Black women’s votes to secure victories. The message to candidates like Crockett, the author argues, is effectively: “We will oppose you based on your race and/or gender in the primary because we fear voters in the general election will reject you based on your race and/or gender.”
That’s the kind of pre-discrimination that should make the party uncomfortable, Ebenhack suggests. Instead, it seems to be accepted practice.
“How rich is this?” he writes. “The party built entirely on identity politics, cashiering a black female candidate for being…black and female is just…delicious!”
A gift that keeps giving
For Republicans, Crockett’s loss is more than just a political footnote. It’s proof, Ebenhack argues, that the Democrats’ commitment to diversity is conditional. When the chips are down, they’ll pick the white guy if they think he can win.
That’s a message that resonates beyond the GOP base. Independents and even some Democrats who are tired of the party’s performative progressivism might see the Crockett episode as a turning point. If the party can’t support its own Black women when it counts, what does that say about its broader promises?
The author’s tone is gleeful, even mocking — he calls Crockett a “national treasure” and a “gift that keeps on giving.” And he notes that she’s being pilloried by a New Republic writer, whom he dismisses as a “commie scumbag,” for not adequately supporting Talarico after her defeat. That double-edged criticism — from both the left and the center-left — only adds to the spectacle.
What it means for the GOP
For Republicans, there’s a strategic lesson here. The Democratic Party’s internal contradictions on race, gender, and electability are a vulnerability. Every time a candidate like Crockett is passed over, the party’s rhetoric about inclusion is undercut. The GOP can point to these moments and say: Look, they don’t really believe what they say.
But there’s also a cautionary note. Republicans shouldn’t get too comfortable mocking Crockett, because her grievance — that Black women are overlooked — is one that resonates with many voters, including some who might otherwise lean Republican. The party would do well to listen to that frustration, even as it enjoys the Democrats’ discomfort.
In the end, Ebenhack’s commentary is a reminder that politics is full of ironies. The party that champions identity can be the cruelest to those who embody it. And the party that says it fights for the working class can toss aside a candidate who, whatever her style, spoke to a real constituency.
For now, Republicans can sit back and enjoy the show. Crockett may be out of Congress, but her story — and the lesson it carries — isn’t going anywhere. As Ebenhack puts it, she’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Source: www.americanthinker.com — https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/republicans-should-love-jasmine-crockett/