reformer

Some of Gaetz's former House colleagues have voiced support for his nomination, including Speaker Mike Johnson, who called him a "reformer" who would "bring a lot to the table".

Gaetz, he claimed, was an “accomplished attorney,” despite his thin legal resume, and “a reformer in his mind and heart.”

"He's a reformer in his mind and heart, and I think that he'll bring a lot to the table on that," said Johnson.

All of this is not to say that Black reformers rejected the idea of staging a political revolution when necessary to abolish entrenched systemic evils.

They, the Wilsons, the Harrises and powerful sisters everywhere should be seen as the most natural possible radicals and reformers.