Projection. Always projection. Like Trump: every accusation is a confession. Look at this absurdity. There’s the Big Lie. And another Big Lie tacked on, prepping for the chaos that only the MAGA Republicans could unleash. Projection. All they’re doing is preparing efforts to steal the 2024 election, just as Trump and his allies attempted in 2020.
Post Truth: this is the Republican approach now: lie, lie, and lie some more. Create your own reality, a reality that does not bear any relation to…..reality! Isn’t that what Trump does? Repeat a lie over and over until it becomes accepted in an endemic fashion. It gets baked in: oh, yeah, that’s right, Democrats cheat and steal elections.
Look at this: a made up narrative of Republican “Post Truth” politicking!! Creating a false reality and presenting it as the reason Republicans must prevent what is not happening by doing it themselves first!
The Big Lie: 2024 variant:
“Barbra Streisand kidnapped by
Hamas. Antifa-BLM protesters taking over a migrant detention facility. The FBI arresting
Donald Trump two days after winning the election.
These were among the far-fetched scenarios imagined by a simulation of threats to the
2024 election showcased on Thursday by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. The presentation, delivered at the foundation’s Washington headquarters, stated as a given that the Biden administration was already engaged in a sweeping conspiracy to use multiple forms of federal power to influence the presidential election. It did not supply any evidence.
Howell said the exercise would lead Heritage to file more litigation over election procedures. He also said it should help the public resist “psychological operations” that he claimed were used in 2020 and are being used again. He didn’t say who supposedly ran the operations.
“The upshot is that we will see a contested election the likes of which we’ve never seen,” said Adam Ellwanger, a rhetoric professor at the University of Houston-Downtown who helped lead the simulation. “If we see the kind of manipulations that we saw in 2020, I wonder if average Americans who are supporters of the president [Trump] will swallow that so easily as they did in 2020.”
