The out-of-ideas Brooklyn GOP has chosen a "non-white" candidate for City Council in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst to run on an out-of-step and out-of-date "pro-white," race-based and race-baiting campaign

What could possibly go wrong ?

Well, first you need to ask yourself:  "What could possibly be >>> RIGHT <<<  with such a race-based and race-baiting approach ???"

And then:  Why are the leaders of the Brooklyn Republican and Conservative Parties all willing to sign-off on that whole race-based and race-baiting approach in 2021 ?????

Let's start with a key fact that too many folks in Brooklyn with an interest in conservative ideas have ignored for too long  ---   reform and/ or progressive Democrats have been winning in local elections in the former Republican stronghold of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, lower Bensonhurst, and Bath Beach for years.

Make no mistake, the one assembly district that tied all those neighborhoods together was once the GOP redoubt in Brooklyn (in the old days, it was the 49th AD of the GOP Seergy Club, and later the Arnaldo Ferrarro's GOP LaGuardia Club).  What had been the gold-standard Republican organization in Brooklyn was wiped out by years of internal warfare, first by Bob DiCarlo, until he got run out of town, but since then, by the likes of Repubican State Senator Marty Golden and once GOP District  Leader Clorinda Annarumo  >>> all making dirty deals with Democrat Member of the Assembly Peter Abbate, working together and sniping at the local LaGuardia Republican club and its candidates for well over a decade, culminating in virtually destroying the very existance of the "old 49th AD" in the reapportionment almost ten years ago. (Sometimes, justice is not swift, but in this case it was certain  ---  in 2018, Marty Golden's defeat at the hands of the Democrats was a direct result of his strategy to destroy the existing Republican organization within the boundaries of the "old 49th AD" and replace them with his so-called "Golden loyalists."

So, what does that have to do with stuff like  ---  "... let's make Bay Ridge 'WHITE' again..."  ---  and  ---  "... let's take back our neighborhoods..." ?  Well, that's all based on the assumptions by people like Marty Golden, and his key supporters inside the Brooklyn Republican and Conservative Parties, that places like Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach and Bensonhurst had reamined "our neighborhoods" and "white" years after they had become perceptably far more multi-racial, multi-cultural, and cosmopolitan than resonably would jibe with any of the older notions of "our [white] neighborhoods," whether Scandinavian, Italian, Greek, Syrian-Christian, or latter-day intermarried and/or multi-generational Irish-American.....

In other words, the Fox Team of "consultants" and advisors are using the shibbolths and cooky-cutter words and images that might have made some sense in the 1980s, but which have had a weaker and weaker cachet anywhere in Brooklyn with each succeeding decade.

If the Brooklyn GOP wants to regain any relevance whatsover, they need to stop, look, and listen to a lot of what independent Democrat activist-consultant Gary Tilser has had to say lately  ---  he has looked at all of this stuff very closely  ---  and in almost everyway, he is way ahead of any consultants and advisors working with the GOP nowadays.

Meanwhile, running a "non-white" candidate with a race-based "pro-white" message might work in some 80% white working class community here or there, but even then it would need subtle fine-tuning to have a chance of working. 

In the Brooklyn of 2021, running somebody like that wouldn't work anywhere, regardless of resources or fine-tuning  ---  in other words, Brian Fox was dead meat from the get-go.