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Trump's Closing Argument: The Brown People Are Coming!
Demonizing Pelosi is backfiring, and McConnell stepped on everything else. So it’s the old GOP standbys—national security and race. Except Trumpified.
Michael Tomasky
10.22.18 5:10 AM ET
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So the Republicans have been playing their usual fear cards. But they’re coming up snake eyes. Fear of Nancy Pelosi isn’t working all that well and indeed now may backfire after that ugly demonstration against her when she appeared in Miami to campaign over the weekend. Members of the openly racist Proud Boys group were among those yelling “communist!” at the House Democratic leader. They may actually succeed in turning Pelosi into a figure of sympathy and solidarity.
The fear of Democrats taking away your health care has bombed, since Mitch McConnell admitted late last week that if they solidify their majorities, Republicans will take another whack at Obamacare. McConnell also stepped on the tried-and-true fear storyline of the Democrats slashing Medicare and Social Security, since he also said last week that the Republicans are taking aim at those programs, too.
It’s amazing, in fact, how horribly McConnell has cocked things up for his party. If a few red-state Democratic senators (besides Joe Manchin, who seems to be in the clear) eke out wins, it will be because McConnell committed the oh-so-un-McConnell-like mistake of telling the truth for once about Republican plans.
That leaves the old reliable Republican fear cards, the ones that long predate Trump: national security and race, in this case fused into a narrative Trump and other Republicans are trying to build about the Honduran refugees attempting to enter Mexico. That’s where their closing argument is headed, and it’s terrifying to imagine where it might climax.
The Republicans’ only hope of salvaging these elections—well, aside from cheating, which they’re also doing, most transparently in Georgia, but everywhere they can get away with it—is for their base to be absolutely panic-stricken with fear.
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