• trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Thanks to Biden, and other democrats hurdling the Overton window to the right by legitimizing “the border crisis” and then serving the republicans the absolutely deranged border bill that they wanted.

    Thank fuck that failed to pass, but that only make democrats look weak in the face of the manufactured border “crisis”.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, they should have let the Republicans ride that wedge issue right into the election! That would have been better than calling them out and letting them shoot themselves in the foot!

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        8 months ago

        They legitimized the border “crisis” to average voters, and then demonstrated that Trump, who doesn’t even currently hold office and didn’t want it to pass (to make Biden look bad), was more capable of getting people to act the way that he wanted his party to.

        That may have made the Republicans look petty to anyone that’s paying attention, but it had the much more negative drawback of laundering a far-right narrative and showing that the other guy actually has more command over the fake “crisis” to average voters.

        Democrats need to learn that capitulating to right-wing narratives, even if doing so disingenuously to own the repugs in some 4-D chess strategy, doesn’t work.