Rightwing playbooks used in past election campaigns are being dusted off for an all-out assault on the vice-president
For Barack Obama there was “birtherism” and a name they said sounded like a specific Middle East terrorist. For Hillary Clinton there was “Lock her up” and merchandise that said, “Trump that bitch”, “Hillary sucks but not like Monica” and “Life’s a bitch: don’t vote for one.”
Rightwing playbooks deployed in past election campaigns are being dusted off for an all-out assault against Vice-President Kamala Harris, the de facto Democratic nominee aiming to become the first Black woman and first person of south Asian descent to be US president.
“It’s obvious that the Republicans are going to play the race and gender card, which we’ve seen already in some of the attacks on social media,” said Tara Setmayer, a Black woman who is co-founder and chief executive of the Seneca Project, a women-led super political action committee. “It may be catnip for their Maga base but it will be a turnoff for the moderate voters in the battleground states that will determine this election.”
Good. The uglier they get, the more people will be turned off. Plenty of people who are racist but don’t consider themselves to be racist do not like the overt racists.
#MAGA already has all the bigots and racists.
Doubling the shit won’t attract more maggots.
MAGA are going to vote for Trump regardless. They’re also only 30% of the country, so he needs more than them to win.
I’m not sure why so many people don’t get that and say things like this.
Despite what many believe on Lemmy, there are also people who only vote Republican for financial reasons and try to ignore the racism and bigotry of the party. I personally know a few that intend to abstain in the fall now.
These are the people that need to see what the GOP actually is. Take the whole mask off GOP, do it.
Yep. Every once in awhile I like to watch some former Trump voters talk about why they won’t vote for him. It’s heartening:
https://youtu.be/0-Rr8UhaZ9Y