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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 12:54 AM Mar 2023

Is the purpose of MTG, Santos and other right wing extremists is

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to "couch" the GOP crazy agenda into even more crazy stuff to make the actual policies more palatable and less nuts to independants (and thrill the right wing base to own the Libs)?

I posted this earlier (Florida bill, put forward by some elected Republican other than DeSantis, would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state):

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/
Will this become actual policy or will it just be noise obscuring the GOP agenda of semi-fascism? I wait to see.

And here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017809504


There was a time when Michelle Backman was seen as too nuts and I think encouraged not to run for the GOP again. Instead of avoiding the obviously morally if not otherwise crazy these days, they flood the airways with it at every level. Trump taught them there was an appetite for that. Growing the crazy instead of slowing it is the obvious plan.

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Is the purpose of MTG, Santos and other right wing extremists is (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2023 OP
Yeah, Overton Window stuff ymetca Mar 2023 #1
Amen. LoisB Mar 2023 #4
I've been wondering something similar about DeSantis Montauk6 Mar 2023 #2
DeSantis does it by announcing really crazy prejudiced stuff. The press goes applegrove Mar 2023 #3
It's a psy-ops. Midnight Writer Mar 2023 #5
HEYYY, you might be onto something! Montauk6 Mar 2023 #7
Q R A Z Y stuff. czarjak Mar 2023 #6

ymetca

(1,182 posts)
1. Yeah, Overton Window stuff
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:07 AM
Mar 2023

bankrolled by unscrupulous plutocrats who are about as "evangelical" as sin itself. The god they all serve is Mammon.

Montauk6

(8,045 posts)
2. I've been wondering something similar about DeSantis
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:14 AM
Mar 2023

I mean, the way he's going, I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to force DisneyWorld to set up an attraction based on "Birth of a Nation"

Is this a way to make Trump more palatable for the 2024 GQP primary?

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
3. DeSantis does it by announcing really crazy prejudiced stuff. The press goes
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:23 AM
Mar 2023

nuts. Then it is slightly less crazy stuff (but stil fascist and controlling) it turns out when the policy is flushed out. So DeSantis does his own version of it.

The Florida bill that would require bloggers who write about governor to register with the state was put forward by some lesser politician. Maybe since DeSantis' pattern was figured out and talked about in the main stream media, he is using surrogates to be the wildly fascist ones. Still work to couch his policies.

Midnight Writer

(21,548 posts)
5. It's a psy-ops.
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 01:39 AM
Mar 2023

They are using the techniques of propaganda, of religion, of spycraft, of advertising, of con artists.

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