It’s been a Republican trait for years to go over the top in exaggerating about the Democratic Party. And they’re doing it again with the talking points in this op-ed from the Washington Post, which is made-to-order for Fox News. As former Gov. Ed Rendell says, "They pounce on anything someone in our party says and make it seem like it represents the whole party.”
The accuracy of the characterizations is always suspect. Our host, in a report on new abortion legislation, used this against the whole Democratic Party even though the legislation he was discussing was for single states. What could very well stymie the GOP tactic is that positions being discussed by the Democrats are popular, such as taxing the wealthy and gun reform.
Yep. They pick out a few things they know they can use to scare their voters about and go all in. They never actually engage in discussing the actual policies being proposed in any intellectual way.
It’s why they are still taking about Hillary’s emails.
Well our host is correct! Anywhere from abortion up to the due date and birth canal to 90% “tippy top” taxes, open borders, lawlessness, amnesty, is all trending in the Democrat Party, the newbies are rather blatant about their socialist policies and any blue-dog Democrat left in Congress is extremely rare!
I’m not sure “fools” is the right word. The people who believe this garbage actually want to believe it and actively seek it out. They tune into talk radio and partisan TV in order to be outraged. It’s what they want.
It’s funny to think of the days when one could honestly say there were radical Democrats – in the late '60s during the Vietnam War era. This is not that. Democrats today are very much Establishment. Not sure I’d say the same about the GOP, though, with all the conspiracy theories, etc. That is not Establishment. Unfortunately, the President lives in that. Hopefully once he’s out of office, things will settle back to where they should be.
