'At every opportunity, Democrats ought to hang Trump around the neck of all Republicans.'
Traditional media consider the economy, abortion, crime, and immigration as key 2022 variables. Can Democrats still find messages that elevate the possible death of a working Democracy—access to voting, majority rules, rule of law, peaceful transfer of power—to become a tie-breaker in a tight election?
Early evidence—Democratic successes in six of six by-elections since 2020 and the 60% Kansas vote for reproductive choice—offers a hint that may be happening. Whether Democrats can continue their momentum will likely depend on their willingness to maintain three strategies: 1) stay on offense; 2) keep tattooing Trump on the back of Republicans; and 3) show how anti-majoritarian rules—e.g.
According to multiple polls, some half of registered Republicans doubt Obama is an American, associate pedophilia with the Democratic Party, and believe that white people suffer more discrimination than Black people .…while 60-70 percent embrace The Big Lie that Biden stole the 2020 election. This QAnon-level insanity provides an array of material for powerful messages: e.g.,"Big Brother Republicans are dangerous extremists.
The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington recently estimated that Trump committed as many as 55 crimes while in office. Indeed, there's so much illegality in TrumpLand that perpetrators ironically benefit from scandal fatigue as frequency normalizes corruption. When one law or norm appears to be broken, Trumpers always conjure up some excuse and soon enough another scandal arrives to distract from the previous.
It used to be seen as a naive epithet to call the GOP"fascists" . But if their unapologetic assaults on freedom and democracy are not an American version of fascism—by a party forever calling Democrats"communists" and"socialists"—what would be? Again, quantity counts. Never before in our history has a president made over 34,000 documented lies and falsehoods in one term , or claimed he won an election he lost by 74 electoral college votes. Never has a losing candidate pretended that"voter fraud” resulted in the loss of key states when scores of judges and the U.S.
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