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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreg Sargent: Fake GOP rage over Biden's 'unity' speech is a sucker's game
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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Don't get snowed by fake GOP outrage about Biden's criticism of right wing extremism. It's a sucker's game, a bad-faith effort to redefine "unity" as agreeing to absolve Republicans from blame for enabling Trump and his attack on our country. My latest:
Opinion | Fake GOP rage over Bidens unity speech is a suckers game
Don't get snowed by GOP fury over Biden's condemnation of right wing extremism.
washingtonpost.com
9:11 AM · Jan 21, 2021
Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Don't get snowed by fake GOP outrage about Biden's criticism of right wing extremism. It's a sucker's game, a bad-faith effort to redefine "unity" as agreeing to absolve Republicans from blame for enabling Trump and his attack on our country. My latest:
Opinion | Fake GOP rage over Bidens unity speech is a suckers game
Don't get snowed by GOP fury over Biden's condemnation of right wing extremism.
washingtonpost.com
9:11 AM · Jan 21, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/21/gop-response-biden-speech-unity/
President Biden declared in his inaugural address that our prospects for much-needed unity are threatened by various political forces. Among them, he said, are racism, nativism, political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
Republicans promptly decided that in condemning those things, Biden was actually talking about them.
Republican officials and their media allies are now widely condemning these words as an attack on themselves and their voters. The obvious trick is to game the media into saying Biden is already reneging on his unity promise by being divisive.
But theres a deeper ploy here. With this new fake outrage fest, Republicans are working to reframe the national debate over how to repair the damage done during Donald Trumps presidency on terms favorable to them.
This reframing is designed to bury their own culpability for the injuries they inflicted by actively enabling Trump and by deliberately harnessing the destructive forces he unleashed toward their own instrumental ends.
If you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinly veiled innuendo calling us white supremacists, calling us racists, calling us every name in the book, calling us people who dont tell the truth, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) complained to Fox News.
The next four years will be about shaming, blaming and cancelling until diversity of thought is completely extinguished, sobbed the chairwoman of the Minnesota GOP.
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Greg Sargent: Fake GOP rage over Biden's 'unity' speech is a sucker's game (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2021
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grumpyduck
(6,267 posts)1. If the shoe fits...
"Republicans promptly decided that in condemning those things, Biden was actually talking about them."
BComplex
(8,067 posts)2. I know. Duh!
That shoe fits like a glove.
The Roux Comes First
(1,300 posts)3. "Fake Rage" is Spot-on, But Doesn't Do It Justice
Another round of Big Lies is headed our way, unless the press can continue to stand on their back legs and call knavery for what it is.
This dishonesty doesn't even overlap with an attempt at unity. When they're through with the preliminary tantrums and efforts to erase history, maybe we can have a blunt talk that might help them with their pre-school efforts at self-examination and grappling with the truth, rather than the fabulous nuanced inaugural speech Biden was so gentle as to grace them with.
ProfessorPlum
(11,279 posts)4. a hit dog yelps