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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2018 midterms: their next move will be a call for a "return to decency"
after installing a serial rapist on the SCOTUS and empowering the vulgar traitor tot as much as possible, their labeling of the people motivated enough to turn out in person to petition the government as an "angry mob" is a tell for the next play.
they can sense it -- people are getting scared, for various reasons, and in such circumstances many will frown upon things perceived to upset the routine. i expect the next wave of GOP ads to feature notions like "restore civility in Congress" and "support Decency". the sheer undiluted hypocrisy of such mantras will be entirely lost on the bulk of the electorate, who will be serenaded often with reminders of how a Great Judge was dastardly accused of ancient unverifiable misconducts by vicious mercenary women paid by George Soros. they will decry the Democrats as "uncivil" and "uppity".
expect it. not sure what we can do about it -- it will probably work to chisel just a little more off of that generic ballot lead.
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)New words, as in, the meaning of.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Decent like calling kneeling football-players "sons of bitches"?
Decent like putting toddlers into cages?
0rganism
(23,971 posts)but if i were a gambler, i wouldn't drop a lot of money into that pot.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)Don't wait for the latest Frank Luntz brainstorm -- put them on the defensive for a change!
i'm sympathetic to this approach but i don't see how we do it without a comparable media infrastructure.