For Democrats, it could be the beginning of a long, hot summer. As midterm election races heat up across the country, Democrat chances for a healthy election cycle are looking more and more remote.

It is also getting to that time when, if things are not looking good for them, they drag out their only reliable play in the playbook: the race card. And the way things are looking, that card will be thrown down a lot.

Because black conservatives are one of Democrats’ biggest fears, the race card was brought out in a big way recently against Georgia Senate candidate and football great Herschel Walker.

Elie Mystal, official “justice” correspondent for the left-leaning The Nation, and a regular MSNBC contributor, recently wrote in a column that Walker’s candidacy was an “insult to black people.”

Mystal really swung for the fences. His opening line calls Walker “an animated caricature of a Black person drawn by white conservatives.”