#red scare

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Dasha Nekrasova

[shewhotellsstories]

"Aw. What good is a world without subversives and deviants?"

-Mark Russell, Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles 

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Anna Khachiyan

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Here’s how the GOP is trying to scare voters this time around

The GOP has settled on a new bogeyman: communism.

Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

It’s that time of the election cycle again where Republicans—desperate to save their congressional majorities—cook up an imaginary foe to scare their base. In 2018 and 2022, it was “migrant caravans.” And now they’ve settled on a new bogeyman to reenergize their depressed base ahead of this year’s midterms: communism. House Speaker Mike Johnson held a news conference on Tuesday, where he and other Republican leaders spoke of the evils of communism. “We’re fighting right now in Congress over whether we’re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic or we’re going to trade that in, dismantle the foundations and go down this dark road of death to communism. That is the question on the ballot this fall,” Johnson said. He then launched into a tirade about socialists taking over the Democratic Party, listing off all of the scary things they’ll do if given power. “This is not a game. Everybody needs to understand,” he said. “These crazy little mini-Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country; they are a danger to you and your family. This is not a game. If they promise you free stuff, there is far more beneath those promises that even some of these people do not understand themselves.”

[...] He then warned that democracy is at risk if Americans do not give Republicans power—an even more absurd claim given that they’re the ones who are taking away rights and trying to rig elections to subvert the will of the people.  Indeed, in the same speech warning of the perils of communism, Johnson pushed the SAVE Act, a horrific piece of legislation that seeks to make it harder to vote.

Republicans going back to the lazy playbook of baselessly smearing Democrats as “communists” to red-bait in order to gain an advantage in the midterms.

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Anna Khachiyan

[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

Just received the most low-rent HUAC investigation ever in my inbox.

Man, sometimes I really hate Indiana. Fuck Rudy Yakym.

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Anna Khachiyan