 Politico. Byron Donalds expresses nostalgia for the Jim Crow era when the black family was together. The New Republic. Byron Donalds cannot stop praising the Jim Crow era. The New Republic has gone from a great magazine to a piece of crap because the left took it over. They used to be liberal. Mr. Donalds might have pointed out that the destructive effects of the Great Society weren't limited to the black community.