We have reported on Blake Masters many times, primarily noting that he’s scary AF and just an overall horrible human being. One might have suspected that such strong MAGA roots near required some serious racism, misogyny, and homophobia, but those are serious accusations that are cheapened when thrown around without hard evidence.

We now have hard evidence.

The post-COVID economy has been tough, and that’s not an American-Biden problem. It’s a global problem with supply, demand, and logistics. Getting enough stuff to the right places at the right time is hard to reboot. Thus inflation. But economics is a science, and these scientists know far more than they did one hundred years ago. They know that controlling inflation requires raising interest rates. (Thankfully, Trump’s need to overheat the economy by demanding that interest rates remain too low in a good economy allows rates to be raised without too much pain.)

The Federal Reserve is staffed by some of the best economists on earth. They’ve moved fast and aggressively. One doesn’t just fall into a position on the Federal Reserve. The president appoints the best, period and the board members hire staff that is the best. The fact that the Federal Reserve now has more Black Americans, women, and gay members than at any other point in history proves that the government seeks out the best and doesn’t assume that the best is confined to straight “white men.” Imagine the talent and brainpower wasted over hundreds of years in this country’s development by rendering Black Americans as lesser human beings, women as nothing more than receptacles of… , and LGBTQ family invisible.

And so here is Blake Masters coming out of the closet, so to speak, ensuring that at least 66% of Arizonans are offended and wiped off his board. The Associated Press tweeted: (As relayed by Mediaite)

Leadership at the Federal Reserve has become its most diverse ever. There are more female, Black and gay officials contributing to the central bank’s interest-rate decisions than at any time in its 109-year history.

To which Masters responded: “Finally a compelling explanation for why our economy is doing so well.”

Finally a compelling explanation for why our economy is doing so well https://t.co/Ub2CeiyjCs

— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) August 29, 2022

Given that Masters’s campaign has repeatedly criticized the state of the economy, it’s clear that he’s blaming the country’s ills on the inclusion of “all of society” rather than reserving spots solely for white men. No wonder the RNC pulled a lot of money out of Arizona. Masters is up against Sen. Mark Kelly, who is about as good a guy as one can find, what with being a legendary astronaut, a senator, and the guy who loyally nursed his wife, Gabbie Giffords, back to an amazing recovery, given what she went through.

It is pretty clear who is the better man. Thanks, Blake. You make it so easy.

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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman