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Fake It ‘Til You Make It – The Dems’ New Campaign Motto
Issues & Insights ^ | 13 Aug, 2026 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 08/14/2026 7:48:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What is it with Democrats and their fake supporters, fake accents, fake backgrounds, fake accomplishments? Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid? Or because they don’t want anyone to know how incredibly out of touch they are with regular Americans?

This week, to cite just the most recent example, a group of “Republicans for Talarico” disbanded after it turned out that they were actually just a bunch of lifelong Democrats in disguise, but not before MS NOW gave them some free airtime.

“The people that [Talarico] had come out and say that they were on his team have been proven to be basically Democrat, liberal activists that have been supporting Democrat candidates for 10-plus years,” Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters told Fox News Digital.

The Talarico campaign distanced itself from these folks after their cover was blown. But everything about Talarico is as fake, from his Christianity to his barbecue photo op.

Around the same time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, last seen trying out a fake southern accent at an event in Memphis, was trying to pretend that she’s not a crazy leftist despite being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which wants to defund the military, close prisons, open the borders, eliminate the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court, and nationalize various industries.

When ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked about her past statements, she laughed that “woke 1 was crazy,” and blamed COVID because “I think that, you know, during lockdown, of course, rhetoric in that time is not rhetoric that we would use today.”

When asked in July by Fox News specifically about the DSA’s call to abolish the Senate, she responded with a word salad for the ages.

Even the DSA’s “workers deserve more” pitch is a ruse. As the New York Times was forced to admit, the DSA’s leadership and voting base is made up almost entirely of well-educated, entitled, white elitists. (Only 4% of its members hold a blue-collar job.)

The list goes on.

Zohran Mamdani – whose mother is a Bollywood film director and father a tenured Columbia professor — pretended to be a child of a poor immigrant family.

“Dr.” Abdul El-Sayed calls himself a physician but has never held a medical license, completed a medical residency, or sat for board exams to practice clinical medicine.

When Graham Platner was acting as if he knew nothing about his Nazi tattoo, he was playing the role of an oyster farmer — it was described as “a key part of the 41-year-old candidate’s biography” — until it came to light that his mother was his only customer.

“Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz lied about serving in the war, his National Guard retirement rank, using IVF in the conception of his children, his 1995 DUI conviction, the length of time he kept children out of school pursuant to COVID-19, ad infinitum,” wrote David Catron in AMAC.

Walz also exaggerated his coaching credentials (which were easily debunked) and his experience with firearms (undermined by his comic mishandling of a shotgun).

Kamala Harris pretended to have worked at McDonald’s to grant herself working-class cred and faked accents depending on her audience. And who can forget Hillary Clinton’s cringeworthy attempts to fit in? She once told churchgoers in Selma, Alabama, that “I ain’t no ways tired.”

Are there Republicans who’ve doctored their resumes? Sure. But faking your past, or your views, or the sound of your voice seems to be a job requirement for Democratic politicians these days.

Our best guess is that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to do this because for most Democrats, their only interest is getting and keeping government power. They love government and want to control its every lever. And if that means pretending to be a normie for the rube voters, so be it.

But, shucks, whadda we know? We’re just a buncha gosh-darn banjo-pickin’ hillbillies from yonder flyover country.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 08/14/2026 7:48:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Propaganda at all times.


2 posted on 08/14/2026 7:49:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid?”

Uh, democrat voters are stupid.


3 posted on 08/14/2026 7:58:51 AM PDT by Dave911
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To: MtnClimber

Projection, fraud, lies and death. All favorites of this party because the ends justify the means. What happened to the Democrats?


4 posted on 08/14/2026 7:59:10 AM PDT by Kudsman (4728)
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats ARE faking it, of course!

It is up to us to see to it that the Democrats DON’T MAKE IT!


5 posted on 08/14/2026 8:02:55 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: MtnClimber

Politicians need not apply.
Real people only.


6 posted on 08/14/2026 8:12:14 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: MtnClimber
Is it because they think voters are that shallow and stupid ?

The answer is NO !

It is because they KNOW that half the voters ARE that shallow and stupid !


7 posted on 08/14/2026 8:14:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:)
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To: MtnClimber

“Lie. Always lie. Never mix lies with truths, as that will serve to trip you up later. Lie big. Make your lies so big, that any journalist questioning it would seem to be crazy to do such a thing, ruining their career.”

- Bill Clinton, 1996


8 posted on 08/14/2026 8:26:41 AM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: MtnClimber

If another party emerges with any kind of following the Rat party could simply implode. It’s out of touch with populace on just about everything of importance and presently gets votes from people with TDS. Trump won’t be on the ballot again, so the TDS crowed may vote differently.


9 posted on 08/14/2026 8:29:42 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: MtnClimber

Maryland Governor Wes Moore and his Thesis/Military decoration/football career fabrications.

Da Nang Dick Blumenthal

The list goes on and on and on, probably others that I can’t remember off the top of my head.


10 posted on 08/14/2026 8:34:51 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That's so cute...)
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To: MtnClimber
Are there Republicans who’ve doctored their resumes?

How does that absolve the rats from wrongdoing?

Two wrongs don't make it right.

11 posted on 08/14/2026 9:00:02 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless aDonald Trump ppl ppl)
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To: MtnClimber

Of course, the Democrats, and especially their evil stepchildren, the Democrat Socialists, believe, with all their hearts and minds, that the voters are just that shallow and stupid. After all, they had infiltrated the education system years ago, and the next generation has grown up with all the physical advantages and the daily indoctrination provided to them by the instructors and guardians of the social justice faith. The flame has been passed to this cohort of new and young voters, the most pernicious and virulent instance of propaganda this nation has ever known.


12 posted on 08/14/2026 9:02:19 AM PDT by alloysteel (In life, you sell only your time, and you buy only your satisfaction. No other transactions apply.)
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To: MtnClimber

Shrug. They’re just theater kids being theater kids. More than power they want _attention_, and they’re willing to role-play being whatever they need to appear to be to get other people to notice and listen to them.


13 posted on 08/14/2026 9:08:21 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (Admit it. You can't reason with liberals. They hate you and want you to die.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

I think TDS is not so much about the “T” as it is about the “DS”. Low IQ voters have always played us vs them and listened to the nightly news. The “DS” seems to be a product of the modern social-media era. As biased as the news media has always been, they had certain lines they did not cross. Social media has no such lines.
I have seen posts on various sites calling Trump a pedo with many people reinforcing each other’s irrational opinions. I always have to ask myself, what is the color of the sky in their world? They live in an echo chamber of lies so it is no wonder they seem deranged to normal people.
I suspect that the same people with TDS will have VDS or RDS after 2028; it just depends on who they are instructed to hate.


14 posted on 08/14/2026 9:56:34 AM PDT by not in the club
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To: MtnClimber

.....Around the same time, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, last seen trying out a fake southern accent at an event in Memphis, was trying to pretend that she’s not a crazy leftist despite being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, which wants to defund the military, close prisons, open the borders, eliminate the Senate, the presidency and the Supreme Court, and nationalize various industries.....

“Noo” Socialists with Southern accents are still “Noo” Socialists! We don’t need the in office!


15 posted on 08/14/2026 10:27:21 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: not in the club
I suspect that the same people with TDS will have VDS or RDS after 2028; it just depends on who they are instructed to hate.

Well two points:
1) Trump has certain narcissistic tendencies that set people off at them. He's over the top, and does things that are unnecessary if not counter productive to achieving his goals, e.g., his personal attacks against certain high profile women. Another candidate who does do that might not get the same emotional response.
2) Voters tend to want to vote for a candidate or a party that expresses their views or beliefs rather then just cast a negative vote against the lesser of two evils. Someone like Tucker Carlson promising to reduce military spending and ending all foreign adventures could tap into something with anti-Trump voters. 2)
16 posted on 08/14/2026 11:03:11 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: MtnClimber

Something very many democrats have in common, very thin resumes outside of govt. It’s laughable when you think of the top democrat poll sitter for president is just a former bartender.


17 posted on 08/14/2026 12:02:40 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Iron Munro
It is because they KNOW that half the voters ARE that shallow and stupid !

Rush Limbaugh called them "low-information voters"

18 posted on 08/14/2026 12:05:07 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
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