I was checking out Real Clear Politics on my phone this morning when I saw the following “gem” from Evita Duffy with The Federalist, “Johnson victory shows Bravery can win swing states”. And she believes this crap….or it’s just an alternate reality considering Johnson’s narrow victory over Mandela Barnes had everything to do with racism.
RoJo the Racist Clown ran ads that actually darkened Barnes’ skin. He ran ads about crime and illegal immigration. Barnes ran behind Gov. Tony Evers by about five points in the same election. Had another Democrat (read White) won the nomination for the Senate race, I do believe they would have won.
Sedition Lover RoJo was a key Jan. 6 Coup Plotter. His Chief of Staff tried to hand over to Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff fake electoral results. That’s a crime. IANAL it might be part of several crimes. RoJo tried to minimize his part in the conspiracy as only being about 30 seconds. Gee, is that all?
“Despite all the cash,persecution, and the Purple nature of Wisconsin, Johnson prevailed, showing that Republican candidates do not have to sacrifice bravery to win elections in swing states”.
No, really.
In Onion-esque parody, the next paragraph, I shit you not, begins with
“From the very start of the Covid psyop, Johnson asked questions and followed data while other Republicans succumbed to what he called the “Covid Cartel”…...”
I’ve heard the same argument from the Stanford swim rapist. That’s how offensive “the brave and principled” Johnson is. And he managed to get reelected, twice, including against Russ Feingold, who is a very principled man.
To quote Peter Griffin of Family Guy, it really grinds my gears that The Federalist is seriously arguing the cowardly married into billions insurrectionist criminal racist RoJo the Clown is brave and principled. Maybe in Bizarro Land where 2+2=5 and the sky is yellow and the sun is blue (apologies to Robert Hunter, but this is MAGAts to a T), but certainly not in the reality-based community.
The words Hunter Biden, Russian Collusion Hoax and Chinese Communist Party appear in the rest of the verbal wankery. She also posits that Rojo “stuck to his guns while other Republicans recoiled”. Nice violent imagery that hyper masculinizes RoJo the Clown, a key insurrectionist plotter.
I won’t link to that dreck. You can access it from Real Clear Politics. It’s a stunningly tone deaf wrong-headed contribution to Bullshit Mountain.
I’m convinced that racism decided this election in Wisconsin. I’d really like to hear what Wisconsinites have to say.
UPDATE:
Over at Crooks and Liars, there’s a piece up about what a piece of shit RoJo was, and why this campaign was so racist:
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[Chris] LaCivita, one of those responsible for "swiftboating" former U.S. Sen. John Kerry in 2004, was the general consultant for the Johnson campaign. He had the difficult task of figuring out how a candidate who spent the last six years making himself the most polarizing figure in Wisconsin could beat a young, gregarious and affable opponent.
LaCivita's three-prong program: "Attack, attack, attack."
And the attacks took the form of lies, character assassinations and pure racist dog whistles.
RoJo and friends were always shading Barnes' skin to be several shades darker, repeatedly lied about Barnes' proposals and played to his racist base like a master musician. And even though they were being repeatedly called out by the media, the right and the left, they just kept doing the same things and RoJo's racist base just ate up everything he could dish out to them, regardless of how absurd or flagrantly false it was.”
What the actual fuck? He was Swiftboated and OJ’ed. And RoJo is brave with principles? No, really.
crooksandliars.com/...