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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TRUE! They should substitute an and instead of the or.
Telling the truth is demonizing?
The other responds in a calm voice, "Then stop being a Kappo."
I just call them like I see them.
Opposite World.
The job of this article is to turn vice into virtue.
If Republicans demonize something, it must be right. Without any moral code from a higher power, they will use the Right as their guidepost and go the opposite direction.
“Headline from the 1940s: The US Government is Already Demonizing Hitler as a Jew Hater.”
Headline NOT seen from the 30’s: Hitler is evil.
‘Republicans Hope to Sway Voters With Labels That Demonize Democrats’
Democrats are, everyone of them, Socialists, Communists and Baby Killers. End of story!!!
Hasn’t the New York Slimes demonized Republicans and Conservatives for the past 100 years or so?
Now their ox is gored so they complain?
Long Overdue. Take the gloves off and slap ‘em down.
>>> In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite <<<
She forgot to include open borders, pro-criminal, and/or pervert.
Name, rank and horsepower. And, not one wants this Constitution thing that the Conservatives make noises about.
How do you “demonize” Infanticide and Socialism?
They is what they is, evil...
Demons gotta demon...
Flak = Over Target...
Well, they did vote God and Israel off their party platform, not once, not twice but THRICE!
Never forget, the current Governor of Virginia (Dr. Mengele in Blackface) had an TV Ad against Ed Gillespie showing a Pickup Truck with a Gillespie Bumper Sticker running down some Minority Children, but that was fine and dandy.
WTF??
The Green New Deal is economic stimulus in the same way that an armed robber is economic stimulus.
Well, if the shoe fits...
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