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 ...
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.
OK, maybe a handful aren’t.
When throwing stones at a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one you hit.
Well,the socialistic and baby killing electorate....
Already demonizing? Shoot, I’ve been demonizing them as that for years.
“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.
Maybe because they’re socialists and baby killers? Just a thought ...
Fake news is when telling the truth becomes ‘demonizing’.
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
Demonize ???
They ARE socialist and baby-killers.
Oregon?
“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.”
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.
Saying the Green New Deal is an “economic stimulus plan” is like saying water isn’t wet.
But THAT'S not "demonizing."
-PJ
That is the truth! They ARE baby killers and Socialists.
***Socialists and Baby Killers***
Obviously the shoe fits the Democrats.
BEAT me to it!
“baby killer” is really the only intellectually honest way to describe it.
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