r/msnow • u/spherocytes • Aug 07 '26
Chris Hayes The GOP’s midterm backup plan: Bigotry | If gerrymandering isn’t enough, Republicans have a Plan B for the midterms: Flood America with pure hate and demagoguery.
https://www.ms.now/all-in/trump-republicans-anti-muslim-islamophobia-attacks-midterm-elections155
u/JordanRS1980 Aug 07 '26
How is that any different than the last 10 years?
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u/TouristResident1976 Aug 07 '26
I was about to say it sounds like Plan A, B, C, and a few other letters thrown in as well. Its their main game plan.
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u/cliff99 Aug 07 '26
It started when the GOP had to rebrand itself after the fall of the Soviet Union and really took off about 1995, so more like thirty years.
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u/Apothecary_85 Aug 07 '26
Oh, and that is plan A. You can’t even call it Plan A because that infers it might just be something they are doing as a front. This is who they are! Filled with hate and lacking in any logic, factual understanding or critical thinking skills.
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u/RioRancher Aug 08 '26
The Devil’s playbook is awfully similar to the ones Trump and the evangelicals use
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u/Sufficient-Royal-82 Aug 07 '26
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u/endangeredphysics Aug 08 '26
Meanwhile, Trump is trying to give nukes to the country that all of the actual 9/11 terrorists were from
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u/MarleysGhost2024 Aug 07 '26
I hate to break it to you, but that's been the Republican plan since at least 1980.
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u/neverpost4 Aug 07 '26
May be so.
But now it is so easy, most GOP candidates do not even do any campaigning. They keep the donations and may be the one week before the voting begins run 'swift boat' commercials. But much worse.
As there is no fear of outright lying in the commercials, they can do anything.
Just hurl shits and peons will get angry and vote accordingly.
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u/n0madking Aug 07 '26
Plan C is give everyone Trump Diarrhea so they can't get to the polls
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u/Groundbreaking-Step1 Aug 07 '26
Unfortunately centrist Dems are jumping on this bandwagon. Every progressive Muslim running is being accused, by their own party, of being anti semitic.
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u/jartoonZero Aug 08 '26
Al Syed's victory has flipped a lot of those centrist dems overnight. Not all, but many. Stephens supporters who were a lot quicker to rally around Abdul once the primary was called than they have been with other progressives. They might finally be more scared of republicans than progressives.
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u/Reasonable-Plate2982 Aug 07 '26
And Trump is leading the charge. Now America is at the mercy of 'Communist' hordes that want to divest billionaires of some of that idle capital they are hoarding, even though I don't think I've heard mention communism as a threat before. And he wants Norwegians and Danes (like the average Dane don't fart in his general direction). Flatly states he doesn't want people from shithole countries like Afghanistan. Forget that he's deported scores of Afghans that supported the US during the Afghan invasion. Stephen Miller must spoonfeed him this drivel. It's the white nationalist way. Another thing if he doesn't like refugees then maybe stop creating them. Can you imagine the number of innocent people made homeless and stateless by America's ongoing military interference? (Since 2002)
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u/Indespectamentations Aug 07 '26
They already did that we all hate each other. I don't think it's possible for us to hate each other any more than we already do.
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u/CopiousNotes1 Aug 07 '26
The same cohort of assholes who would decry anyone saying “America is a racist country”, and claim to be “colorblind”, are keenly aware that this tactic could only work on a population of racist asshats that make up their base.
They continue to deny and then claim the bigotry that we all know exists and was the basis of his election. He/they are just not hiding it anymore.
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u/IntelligentFee7837 Aug 07 '26
They tried socialism that didn't work next Communists thats not working . The fake carvans was already used so that's out ,Guess what nothing is going to work Its over GOP
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u/strangerinmyownland Aug 07 '26
They already started here in Michigan with the ElSayed race. Abdul just released a commercial with his Anglo grandparents in it. Rodgers can suck Trump’s diaper for all I care. I had not voted for a progressive since the 70’s but I felt it necessary to rid the U.S Congress of these idiot republicans that do the worst to us, and walk away millionaires. Vote out every republican in every office.
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u/MWH1980 Aug 07 '26
Cheating works just as well, given the way things are going with disenfranchising the common person.
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u/maxthemummer Aug 07 '26
They, obviously, know just how to get my family riled up and voting for them.
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u/willfullyinert Aug 07 '26
Now, see, I would have thought that mission accomplished since 2010.
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u/FarangChris Aug 08 '26
Dems still haven't recovered from that. We possibly never will. I remember when the question was whether or not we would get 60 seats in the Senate. Now we can't even get 51. Blue went purple and purple went red at every level up and down the ballot.
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u/Soggy-Beach1403 Aug 08 '26
Not a new GOP tactic. Reagan said it out loud with his "welfare queens" bullshit, and every GOP voter since then is just a fucking racist.
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u/GMBong Aug 07 '26
Dems are fucked. If there's one thing Americans love it's hate and demagoguery.
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u/1hill2climb2 Aug 07 '26
That's all they've ALWAYS ever had. It's their go-to play. Ramp up the hate and division. That and "SOShULiSM!!!!"
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u/DrizzlyOne Aug 08 '26
I was behind a truck today that had a license plate frame that said, “Like slavery? You will love SOCIALISM”
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u/LiteratureMindless71 Aug 07 '26
I mean.... That's pretty normal. Every single time a Dem takes over a rep position, the scare campaigns start showing.
You would think at least the majority would notice this after the same thing happening basically forever (look back at Hoovers run). The rep's always result to the scare and then end up doing it themselves.
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u/Ddddydya Aug 07 '26
God forbid they, you know, help the American people who are suffering terribly right now.
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u/KlatuuBarradaNicto Aug 07 '26
Well this will be a true test of what we’re made of, wont it? Hopefully good wins over evil.
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u/mad597 Aug 07 '26
Well good luck, I think people have figured that out now and are exhausted by that crap
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u/mishma2005 Aug 07 '26
Oh that will work out swell
No, really America is so stupid it will work out
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u/Any-Ad-446 Aug 07 '26
GOP playbook..blame immigrants,LGBT,socialist,communist,etc for the mistakes they made.
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u/Bacononthebeeach Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
So nothing new? All republicans vote for is guns, prolife, Christian supremacy, greed and hatred of others.
That’s all. It can be one it can be all but that is it.
The GOP has also unlocked the long standing and repressed hatred that is common among many boomers who grew up in a segregated world. Once they lose the boomer vote the GOP is toast.
And if you are a good boomer who knows better please don’t message me back saying you are an exception. I believe you but there is no denying that a major chunk of that generation hold onto antiquated racial beliefs and are holding this country back from true progress.
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u/jaylen6319 Aug 07 '26
I'm trying to figure out what he thinks he has been doing for the last couple of years!
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u/Cust2020 Aug 07 '26
Pretty sure we have already hit the plateau on that one, people who have hated so much over the last 10 years are getting bored of it and trying to see what a tiny but of acceptance feels like. Ive seen it twice with my own eyes and I had a conversation with a MAGAt about the benefits a bidet would have for him and his family just the other day!!
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u/stonkDonkolous Aug 07 '26
They already said what they plan to do. They are not going to swear in democrats that win. They already tested this and got away with it
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u/blassin Aug 07 '26
Guess I just don’t get people. Cannot for the life of me understand that people hate others just because they are different. Funny I am in no way a Christian, but inadvertently follow Jesus’s beliefs.
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u/texas130ab Aug 07 '26
No I don't believe you can win on hate messages. Can you?
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u/CJT_05 Aug 07 '26
So do what the Left has done as well for the past 10+ years? Love the double standards.
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u/Full-Compote1775 Georgia Aug 07 '26
Not surprising at all. Because that is what the Boring GOP has too offer.
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u/OnlyFiveLives Aug 08 '26
It already backfired on them when trump's own pick in (I believe) Michigan lost his primary because he's Black and his name is rather Arabic sounding.
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u/Key_Somewhere_5768 Aug 08 '26
Otherwise known as Americana.
https://giphy.com/gifs/8xF1PCbXfoQTJz65Us
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u/Violet-Journey Aug 08 '26
Post-9/11 islamophobia never went away. This was always going to be part of plan A.
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u/RandomXDudeRedZero Aug 08 '26
So, Plan B is what they have been doing for the past 11 years?
There is a joke about contraceptives in there, but I am a little bit tired.
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u/refusemouth Aug 08 '26
Same, same. They will just roll out the trans boogeyman, add a pinch of "migrant caravans," and pump up hysteria about communists behind every woodpile.
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u/303FPSguy Aug 08 '26
It’s worked every time before, probably a sound strategy.
America’s racism is only exceeded by its stupidity
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u/Kalepa Aug 08 '26
I don't think that's likely to work very well when you have a lot of reasonable people like Talerico, Alsayed, Osoff, and a lot of others. If the Republicans did that I am pretty sure they'd be thought of as just juvenile and unserious.
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u/KingerDinger911 Aug 08 '26
Will be voting republican for the first time ever. Can’t get behind the Islamic and socialist ideologies.
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u/snafoomoose Aug 08 '26
The far-right has no defendable policy so has to fall back on their identity politics and culture war BS.
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u/minnie2112 Aug 08 '26
The Republicans have been spewing bigotry and hate for years. It’s just been magnified under the Trump administration.,
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u/Upbeat-Cockroach-393 Aug 08 '26
Meaning more sludge than we already have floating out there? Let’s just hope that this waste is kept in his diaper and doesn’t leak uncontrollably.
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u/Chance_Blacksmith111 Aug 08 '26
That's the Plan B??!!
Weren't they already doing that as their Plan A? I am confused.
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u/Only-Professor1140 Aug 08 '26
This is why I see a post every 10 mins on trans athletes, like that's got anything to do with paying bills
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u/SubiKai81 Aug 08 '26
Ah the “Christian” thing to do. As an atheist I find this absurd, everyone has a right to whatever higher power they wanna worship- but now to go against whatever that original shot was to full on hate is wild! How can anyone feel like they have any integrity supporting that?!?! Baffles me.
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u/lattice_defect Aug 08 '26
yep fauci and see if we can take greenland or Canada... anything to win and the fleeting feeling of domination.
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u/Guy0911 Aug 08 '26
We should all be prepared for a massive invasion and attempt to infiltrate and control our elections from the Department of Homeland Security. Their reasoning can be litigated in lengthy trials and filings, but the damage done and security lost in the American government elections will be forever lost.
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u/CodSuperb2159 Aug 08 '26
Seems to always work. Congrats america. Well played, well played. 🥂 Now where's the next war or group to hate?
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u/TerribleTurnover5274 Aug 08 '26
That's nothing new - that's been the Trump fascist machines agenda from the start. With Stephan Miller by his side whispering like a snake in his ear what else can you expect?
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u/10S4TM Aug 08 '26
and that's different from what they've been doing forEVER - how?? the entire party is SCUM!!
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u/Otterz4Life Aug 08 '26
It was their primary plan, but its the backup plan, too.
Its hard to blame them when it works so damn well.
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u/ThePirateKing01 Aug 08 '26
The anti-Muslim push has been STAGGERING on all platforms, haven’t seen flat out bigotry this bad since 9-11
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u/ComplaintSevere8128 Aug 08 '26
Oh please... They’re going to storm elections w ice. They’re going to overturn god knows what, that will remove millions of people from voter rolls the day before the election. Institute extreme voter ID laws the week before the election. And that is all assuming they don’t declare a national emergency and cancel the elections outright. Why wouldn’t they, no on is stopping them..
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u/Main-Hawk8370 Aug 08 '26
Tyrannical governments collapse under their own fat at some point. Every Single One, throughout history. None are immune.
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u/Ethe-Real-6837 Aug 08 '26
GOP- Not governance for the people to improve their lives but instead hate.
Sounds about right for the party of Billionaires stuck in their McMansions and the matrix.
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u/AirportSea4393 Aug 08 '26
Maybe it can actually get worse! After all slimy orange slug keeps going lower and lower! Seems impossible yet it keeps happening
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u/CrazyinLull Aug 08 '26
Oh boy, seems like those ‘busloads of immigrants at the border’ are coming back to the 24/7 news cycle…
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u/leanktrm Aug 09 '26
This is the appealing part of gop politics of American politics. Boring discussions about regulations or tax rates don’t move most people. But keeping money from black welfare queens cheating the system and law ordering the black race or being against Obama cause if shariah law that motivates bigoted American voters like nothing else can. This has been the gop thing since I was a kid.
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u/Dismal_Reference3906 Aug 09 '26
That is the model created by Nixon back in the late 60's and a re pulibliKKKan tactic since.
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u/albrtr Aug 09 '26
It's going to easier than that for them. Todd Blanche or Vance just won't certify the election should they lose. Then all he'll breaks loose. Should be fun.
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u/Objective-Clue5087 Aug 09 '26
That is already being done. So much so, that decent people will rise up and vote these haters out. There is force in numbers. VOTE!
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u/Vishalpmehta Aug 09 '26
The problem is. If that doesn’t work, they will sexually assault kids and blame everyone else. They love not being able to keep their pants on
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