Republican attacks on Kamala Harris to get ‘as ugly and bigoted as they can’
Republican attacks on Kamala Harris to get ‘as ugly and bigoted as they can’
Rightwing playbooks used in past election campaigns are being dusted off for an all-out assault on the vice-president
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.
134#MAGA already has all the bigots and racists.
Doubling the shit won't attract more maggots.
66My dad is almost one of the the people FlyingSquid talking about; he's a Democrat and kind of racist, but he doesn't see himself as a racist. Someone like a more Republican version of my dad might be persuaded to vote for Harris, or at least not vote for Trump, if the Trump campaign gets too nasty.
Don't forget that magats aren't the only people who would potentially vote for Trump; a lot of people are swing voters who, for some reason, have a hard time deciding who to vote for. Neither candidate can win without appealing to a majority of those voters.
48MAGA 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.
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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.
30These are the people that need to see what the GOP actually is. Take the whole mask off GOP, do it.
19It's about the table full of Nazis
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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:
6Careful a lot of them will still vote for him.
[According to] Ange-Marie Hancock, director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. She also happens to lead a group of scholars studying the current vice presidency. Their work is called the Kamala Harris Project…
what's interesting about how it impacts swing voters or independent voters is certainly on the surface, if you were to survey independent voters or swing voters, I bet you would get a strong majority who would say, we really don't like that kind of language. We really don't like the way in which he talks about women or talks about his opponents in that kind of way. The challenge of course, is that many political psychologists have found that even as we kind of consciously say, we don't agree with it, it still ends up having a negative impact.”
From Consider This from NPR: Kamala Harris already faces racism and sexism from Trump and Republicans, Jul 24, 2024 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/consider-this-from-npr/id1503226625?i=1000663256947
There’s a deeper explanation in that (short) podcast in case anyone is curious.
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The modern GOP don't have a platform. They run on grievance. That's why they're freaking out about the fact that Joe Biden dropped out. They had been running "against Joe Biden" rather than running a campaign based on a platform or issues.
122To be fair the Democrats don't have a platform other than: not Republican/Trump/ diverse coalition. Ok, they didn't want to backslide, which is good, but the things they want to accomplish don't help the working class a whole lot.
-83Let me help you out.
58From her speech the other day (in conjunction with Biden) these appear to be her focuses:
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The middle class
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Voting rights
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Reproductive rights (limited to a bill, no mention of stuffing the Supreme Court)
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Justice Reform
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Gun Control
Hopefully we get more information over the best while and some formalization at the convention.
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I mean democrats categorically support unions, support reproductive rights, support protecting the environment... They do have a platform that isn’t “not Republican”. It’s just that republicans know their platform (project 2025 really) is so wildly unpopular they have to focus not on that, they have to focus on tearing down the opposing candidate.
In terms of helping the working class: taxing the wealthy and wealthy corporations more will help the working class. Improving access to low cost / affordable healthcare will help the working class. Having strong unions will help the working class.
28No, that's just ''I'm rubber your glue'' bullshit. It isn't so. Just like CNN isn't FoxNews for Liberals, and there's absolutely no cult of personality for Unkie Joe, as you can see from him stepping down, and left wing engagement went WAY up.
It's not enough to simply claim there's no platform, there is, it's not just ''Trump bad''. But to be fair, he is promising to create a dictatorship and end our country in order to remake it in his image.
16To be fair the Democrats don’t have a platform other than
I'm sorry you're ignorant. But the good news is that you can actually do something about. Go ahead! Give it a try.
13You're wrong. Some wisdom for you: If you're always wrong about something, and only people who hold precisely the exact same viewpoints as you agree, you should consider looking into it yourself. Because the question is no longer whether you're right, it becomes about who is the most correct, and whether you personally care enough and are brave enough to challenge your own viewpoint.
Yeah, we are a bit of a microcosm here. However, when it comes to people on the left you can at least trust that most of us will go around correcting one another, often to our own detriment.
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I would expect nothing less from Maga bigots.
53I give it a week until I see a shirt about raping her. Disgusting, but expected from them.
14Already saw one from MAGA trolls on Xitter about being a sex worker, with a silhouette of her on her knees doing exactly what you think. I don't know why I ever check back on that site anymore when I'm almost entirely moved over to Mastodon and Lemmy.
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Literally this week
26The fact that even Republicans were concerned that Republicans were going to be racist and sexist speaks volumes.
13lol as if they could
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Yeah, that's been their brand for 8 years.
1956
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so, the usual
17It doesn't matter who runs, Republicans will say awful shit.
Hell, they said Biden was a communist with a straight face.
There is zero reason to listen to them
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Republicans: we're worried women won't vote for us.
Also Republicans: attacks Kamala because she's a woman.
12"Why won't women just accept that men should be in charge?!"
3"Do they have any idea how hard it's going to be to create Gilead with a female president?"
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TIL David Smith (the article author) is completely out of ideas and has decided to phone it in until the weekend.
11oh please do go on, be as racist and sexist as you can.
11Communists when Trump calls Harris extreme left
9Anyone who likes Stalin isn't a communist.
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Idiocrazy was a documemtary?
6No. This isn't close to worst of the attacks they're already making, let alone what they could do. It's a downright deplorable headline.
4I doubt that, it can always get worse especially when it comes to the GOP.
4I wish they wouldn't but none of these people can stop themselves from being gross creepers.
3Good, let them remind everyone how horrible they are.
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