Reps. Justin Jones, right, Justin Pearson, bottom, and Gloria Johnson, left, bring a megaphone onto the Tennessee House floor on March 30, 2023. (Photo: John Partipilo)
All that Tennessee Republicans achieved with the expulsion of two duly elected Democratic Party members of the Tennessee legislature was to provide raw material for social media-fueled outrage, help the Democratic fundraising arm and turn a pair of progressive young Black legislators into national political figures. You’d have thought one of the older, wiser GOP leaders in that state with a sense of how communication works these days might have seen that one coming, and that Vice President Kamala Harris would be jumping on a plane for Tennessee for a can’t-lose trip for maximum personal and po...
