What Perry Bacon and Tyler Austin Harper get wrong about Tim Scott

When all is said and done, his interests don’t align with those of the vast majority of African Americans

On the same day last week, the Washington Post published two opinion pieces by self-described progressives that highlighted their views on Tim Scott, the South Carolina Senator who is seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for president. While their premises somewhat differed, both appeared to offer defenses of Scott with Bacon admitting that…