"Mixed up" is the latest right wing meme or descriptor for their enemies

[eleny]

First time I heard it was to describe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. Then a few days later I watched an ad directed against one of our Colorado state house Democrats running for reelection. Her votes were characterized as “mixed up”. Now, this morning on the Sunday AM Joy tv show Joy Reid read a Trump quote regarding Attorney General Sessions. He talked about Sessions's nomination hearing where Trump described Sessions as being “mixed up and confused” during that process.

Afaic, they've used up any effectiveness that the meme may have ever had – if it had any in the first place.

[dalton99a]

1. "Fucked up"

Link to tweet

[stopbush]

2. They're following tRump's lead, using innocuous-sounding grandma & grandpa language

to soft peddle their radical agenda to the rubes.

Ever notice how tRump uses phrases like “it’s not fair” and “he’s not very nice?” The kind of words grandma would use to modestly admonish someone? But with tRump and the Rs, the language is used to mask their all-out assault on our democracy.

“She’s mixed up.” Not as severe as calling Dr Ford a liar, but still getting the message out there to the haters that, yeah, she’s a liar.

[eleny]

3. It sure is an old ploy

I remember during the GHW Bush administration when he was running for reelection. He called Bill Clinton "scary". One day a Republican co-worker made a point of talking to me about Clinton and called him "scary". I asked her what was scary about him and she really didn't have an answer. We talked about how then Pres. Bush used that term so it must be getting around her circles and may not have any truth to it.

I haven't forgotten about that conversation because before that I never was close to many hard core right wingers having grown up in a Dem household NYC. But here in Colorado they were plentiful back in the '80s.

[Ohiogal]

4. So true!

My staunchly conservative aunt used that exact same word in an email to me when Obama was running for pres the first time. "He's scary". So now i see where she got that from. Funny I remember it, because I thought it was such an odd thing to say about a politician like Obama who seemed to be so compassionate and classy. Probably got a lot of air time on Faux News because i know she watched that exclusively.