Bringing more than a bottle of hot sauce to the table.
Via Law and Crime:
A Democratic congressional candidate in a red state is bucking conventional wisdom and party politics by endorsing a raft of explicitly left-wing and populist policy proposals–including reparations for African-Americans.
Dan Canon is running for Indiana’s ninth congressional district. This district includes the city of Bloomington and most of the Indiana side of the Louisville metro area. Canon himself is locally known as a prominent civil rights attorney who helped secure same-sex marriage rights in nearby Kentucky.
The “Priorities” section of Canon’s campaign website positions the candidate firmly in the progressive mold–but goes even a bit further than that. One of the specific policies Canon aims to see enacted is, as mentioned above, reparations for African-Americans.[…]
During the 2016 general election, Donald Trump blew Hillary Clinton out of the water in Indiana’s ninth district–scoring a 27-point landslide over the Democratic Party’s standard bearer. The ninth’s current representative, incumbent Republican Trey Hollingsworth notched a slightly less impressive victory–beating his Democratic counterpart by a relatively modest 14-point margin.
So, politically, the district is–at least in terms of party preferences–fairly and traditionally Republican, but Canon appears to be counting on the idea that Republican voting preferences don’t necessarily equate to rock-solid conservative and reactionary politics in the Hoosier State–at least not all of the time.