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In reply to the discussion: Other than Katie Porter & a couple others, the Democratic Party STILL doesn't know how to fight back [View all]BeyondGeography
(39,225 posts)And to the question of what exactly that means, how about something simple like having every Dem who goes on television call the Republicans the Party of Crazy.
Why? Because none of them have come out and repudiated QAnon. Say you wont stop calling them the Party of Crazy until each and every Republican member of Congress is on the record as saying they dont believe Washington is infested with devil worshipping sexual predators. Ask journalists why they refuse to ask Republican leadership if Q really knows. Or if Obama should be subpoenaed, or if they believe theres a microchip in the Pfizer vaccine.
Because thats what THEY would do to US if we had a Marjorie Taylor Greene in our midst and a huge chunk of our base believed all that shit. Just like were all commie freaks because somebody who champions MFA honeymooned in Russia 40 years ago.
Because we dont routinely put this kind of pressure on Republicans, because we play nice, because we are constantly on the defensive, the Republican Party gets a free pass on all of their crazy. They get to have their cake (the votes of lunatics) and eat it too (thumbing their nose at said lunatics in private thereby preserving their respectability).
Force them to repudiate the crazy. Drive a fucking wedge through their party and see what happens. Or just keep apologizing for having radical thoughts like police reform, affordable health care and sustainable climate policies.