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Republicans Already Are Demonizing Democrats as Socialists and Baby Killers
New York Times ^ | February 18, 2019 | Sheryl Gay Stolberg

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion; aoc; democrats; fakenews; greennewdeal; ilhanomar; mediabias; mediawingofthednc; ocasiocortez; omar; prolife; republicans; socialism
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To: EdnaMode

If you look at all the “leaders” in the Demon Rat party, that’s pretty much the case ... Socialists, abortion up to birth & infanticide after, open borders (now some are even saying tear down what wall we have already!), gun grabbers, racists (blackface & hood-wearing) and on and on.

If the dang shoe fits Demon Rats, you’ll have to wear it. For all those non-leader types .... you vote for these ‘Rats knowing what they stand for, so you’re tarred and feathered with the labels as well. If “that’s not you”, then quit voting for people who are.


21 posted on 02/18/2019 8:16:04 AM PST by Qiviut (McCain & Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP!)
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To: EdnaMode
In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite.

OK, maybe a handful aren’t.

22 posted on 02/18/2019 8:16:37 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: EdnaMode
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
23 posted on 02/18/2019 8:16:37 AM PST by TADSLOS (Being cremated is my last hope for a smoking hot body.)
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To: EdnaMode

When throwing stones at a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one you hit.


24 posted on 02/18/2019 8:16:39 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Tax-chick

Well,the socialistic and baby killing electorate....


25 posted on 02/18/2019 8:16:45 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: EdnaMode

Already demonizing? Shoot, I’ve been demonizing them as that for years.


26 posted on 02/18/2019 8:17:01 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: mvonfr

“if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite. — Not true; many Demon Rats are all three at once.”

Yep! Good catch.

Truth is poison to rats. It kills their con game. NYT is ENEMEDIA. Their fall will be good to see.


27 posted on 02/18/2019 8:17:10 AM PST by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe because they’re socialists and baby killers? Just a thought ...


28 posted on 02/18/2019 8:17:14 AM PST by Be Free (When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.)
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To: EdnaMode

Fake news is when telling the truth becomes ‘demonizing’.


29 posted on 02/18/2019 8:17:58 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: EdnaMode

This journalist doesn’t know that water is wet either.

She apparently is in denial of what is patently obvious. Perhaps other voters too have yet to realize how wicked the Democrats have become?

The article is a good barometer that there is trouble brewing for dems


30 posted on 02/18/2019 8:18:45 AM PST by Professional
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To: EdnaMode

Demonize ???

They ARE socialist and baby-killers.


31 posted on 02/18/2019 8:19:28 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Tax-chick

Oregon?


32 posted on 02/18/2019 8:19:44 AM PST by Cold Heart (The main purpose of The Wall is to protect the US from its own politicians.)
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To: mvonfr

“if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite.”

Bad use of “either”. We ask ourselves why reporters can’t ask the right questions, well they can’t use proper English grammar.
You have to use “or” before the other things being compared.
“If you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, or a baby killer or an anti-Semite.”


33 posted on 02/18/2019 8:19:46 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: EdnaMode

Welcome to Alinsky’s rules.
Does anyone think for a second that the left hasn’t been trying to paint all conservatives as racist and inti-immigrant?
The left is pushing nationalized healthcare and free college for all. That sure doesn’t sound like capitalism to me.


34 posted on 02/18/2019 8:20:22 AM PST by Consistent
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To: EdnaMode

Saying the Green New Deal is an “economic stimulus plan” is like saying water isn’t wet.


35 posted on 02/18/2019 8:20:24 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: EdnaMode
And Republicans were racist woman-haters who wanted to push grandma off a cliff?

But THAT'S not "demonizing."

-PJ

36 posted on 02/18/2019 8:21:03 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: EdnaMode

That is the truth! They ARE baby killers and Socialists.


37 posted on 02/18/2019 8:21:06 AM PST by madison10
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To: EdnaMode

***Socialists and Baby Killers***

Obviously the shoe fits the Democrats.


38 posted on 02/18/2019 8:21:23 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: MichaelCorleone

BEAT me to it!


39 posted on 02/18/2019 8:21:46 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: txrefugee

“baby killer” is really the only intellectually honest way to describe it.


40 posted on 02/18/2019 8:22:05 AM PST by PGR88
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