Posted on 02/18/2019 8:08:51 AM PST by EdnaMode
In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite.
That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, as they seek to demonize Democrats well in advance of the 2020 elections by painting them as left-wing crazies who will destroy the American economy, murder newborn babies and turn a blind eye to bigotry against Jews.
The unusually aggressive assault, which Republican officials and strategists outlined in interviews last week, is meant to strangle the new Democratic majority in its infancy. It was set in motion this month by President Trump, who used his State of the Union address to rail against “new calls to adopt socialism in our country” and mischaracterize legislation backed by Democrats in New York and Virginia as allowing “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.”
Then last week, Republicans amped it up, seizing on a Twitter post by a freshman representative, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which even some Democrats condemned as anti-Semitic, and ridiculing the “Green New Deal,” an ambitious economic stimulus plan unveiled by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist. Suddenly even Jewish Democrats were abetting anti-Semitism and moderate Democrats in Republican districts were Trotskyites and Stalinists. “Socialism is the greatest vulnerability by far that the House Democrats have,” Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in an interview, adding that he had also instructed his team to spotlight “all the extreme wild ideas” that Democrats espouse, “on a daily basis, on an hourly basis if it’s available.”
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And that’s the TRUTH!
Headline from the 1940s: The US Government is Already Demonizing Hitler as a Jew Hater.
If the shoe fits...
Hey - if the shoe fits...
Not true; many Demon Rats are all three at once.
Wow - full throated defense of anti-semitism, racism, bigotry, infanticide and communism - all in one column.
This cold war is getting hot...
Hey, if the shoe fits....... !
About time!!! This has been going on for decades and until the mighty Trump came along, the Republicans were too timid to even mention it.
How can you demonize a party that has already demonized itself?
"Demonized" as in doing what Satan tells them to do. Like killing babies and selling their body parts and eating the leftovers.
Because who exactly is advancing socialism or baby killing?
You are known by the company yo keep. Never mind the company you PREFER.
mischaracterize legislation backed by Democrats in New York and Virginia as allowing “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.”
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No mischaracterization about it. That’s exactly what these laws permit.
To leftists, the truth is hateful.
And your point is......you bunch of demonic socialists and baby killers...OWN it you f ers.....
Sorry, forgot to include favoritism to Islam and its causes....
Hey! They make it easy!
Actually it would be hard to do anything else.
It walks like a duck, it talks like a duck.
Is that all they have?
Maybe socialists and baby-killers are what the electorate wants.
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