Eric Levitz is a New York-based journalist and contributor for the New York Magazine.
Posted on 10/18/2018 1:06:45 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
If your only source of information about American politics in 2018 were the GOP’s campaign ads, you would think that the Democratic Party was a radical left-wing organization, whose principal constituents were anarchists, misandrists, literal terrorists, and acolytes of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. If you supplemented those 30-second spots with Donald Trump’s stump speeches, and Fox News’ prime-time lineup, you might further conclude that Nancy Pelosi was the chair of The House Antifa Caucus.
In other words: The GOP’s message-makers are working round-the-clock to collapse the distinctions between the Democratic Party and the most radical activists at the far-left fringes of its big tent.
The actually existing Republican Party, on the other hand, is an extreme, reactionary formation that champions procedural radicalism, nativism, voter suppression, far-right militia movements, the stigmatization of the Islamic faith, sheriffs who habitually violate the law and their constituents’ civil rights, the subordination of federal law enforcement to Donald Trump’s whims - and, unlike the vast majority of Americans, a smaller and less generous social-welfare state, lower taxes for the rich, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, fewer regulatory protections for consumers and the environment, and various reforms aimed increasing Wyatt Koch’s share of economic growth.
When the (unfortunately existing) centrist commentariat elides these distinctions - and wishes a pox on both “extreme cults” - they are helping the most ideologically extreme major party in the developed world blind the American people to how much they have in common.
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Eric Levitz is a New York-based journalist and contributor for the New York Magazine.
Goebbels would fit here just fine too.
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Not from the Onion???
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Nice try, Levitz.
If the Dems are centrist... what in god’s name would they recognize as a leftist radical?
We posting Onion articles now?
Well, if the Democrat party is the centrist party, the centrists had better get the hell out of it while their reputations are still intact.
That is possibly the stupidest head line ever wrote.
Wow, do you really think he believes it?
To the left of Mao and Pol Pot?
If the Dems are centrist... what in god’s name would they recognize as a leftist radical?
Maoists ...
If your only source of information about American politics in 2018 were the GOP’s campaign ads, you would think that the Democratic Party was a radical left-wing organization...
And you can guess which is which.
The GOP’s message-makers are working round-the-clock to collapse the distinctions between the Democratic Party and the most radical activists at the far-left fringes of its big tent …No, Lyin’ Eric. The Democrats are sending that message themselves. The far left is in the tent and has been for decades, not at its fringes.
So now there is no longer anything that’s to the left of the middle?
Gaydar pegged
Pol Pot?
truer words . . . :)
Pajama Boy Alert
That sums it up.
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