Sometimes, like today, my buddy Dave ‘really nails it’.
Trump proved to the GOP and the Oligarchy that open bigotry, outlandish victimization narratives and Big Lies work like a charm in 21st century America. Now every right-wing media outlet and hate radio show works furiously to out-compete their rivals in viciously demonizing anyone outside the Trump Tribe as existentially “the Other”. We’re not liberals or progressives. We’re “Communists”, “radicals”, “Marxists” and “nihilists” – who “hate America” and are out to “destroy America”. And we (“the Other”) Must Be Stopped at any cost.
This level of white-hot rhetoric on the Right makes McCarthyism look tame by comparison. We (who are not True Believers in Our Lord and Savior Trump) are being repeatedly demonized and de-humanized 24/7/365 in the Fox (and Newsmax, OAN, Breitbart, TownHall and hate radio) alternative reality bubble.
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