Political strategist, national political analyst. Next Big Thing: Hit Em' Where It Hurts (Crown '24).
#NegativePartisanship
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Rachel Bitecofer's tough-love lesson for Democrats: Time to fight dirty.
Political scientist turned strategist sees a winning strategy: Paint the GOP as murderous, delusional fascists. ๐๐๐
โWhat youโre telling me is that you donโt mind infringing on free speech to protect children from [drag shows] but when it comes to kids who have died from guns, you donโt give a flying f.โ
See how
@NicolleDWallace
always says, "the disgraced ex-president?" That's GOP messaging training from her old life, and what every one of us must learn to do too. Repetition. Simplicity Branding.
Lately, I've been asking people why they dislike Pelosi. Turns out, most people don't know WHY they hate her, they just do. It seems lost on them that the reason they hate her is a decade of negative attacks by the GOP. It's very similar to HRC.
House Democrats are stuck -- between the option of an unpopular Pelosi as speaker who's problematic for many of the House freshmen who just won, and the option of no real Plan B.
This morning's
@NBCFirstRead
You're watching a Court stolen from you by Republicans, purposely politized by Republicans, used by Republicans to strip your fundamental liberty, but you're mad at...Democrats?!?
Collapse of Weimar in Germany. Rise of Mussolini in Italy. Stalin's post-Lenin purges. I've spent a year on a deep dive into how dictatorships rise. The common thread in every story? Under-reaction from the rest of civil society during the phase when they had the power to stop it
Imagine watching your children be hunted down one by one with an AR-15 after asking your drunk neighbor to stop shooting so your baby can sleep and you'll have a good sense of what it's like to live in Red America these days.
For anyone thinking women's rights can't get rolled back under a religious autocracy I present to you female parliamentarians from Iran in the mid 70s. ๐
Old enough to remember when
@NBCNews
fired Brian Williams because viewers couldnโt trust him after his embellished war correspondent stories.
Today they announced hiring Ronna McDaniel who aided and abetted a plot to steal the 2020 election that ended in an insurrection.
Men, if you think you don't get enough sex now, go ahead & vote for Republicans who plan to takeaway legal birth control & end all abortion. See how that works out for you.
They wonโt like hearing this but progressives overreached w Sanders & cost themselves their 1st real shot at the partyโs nomination. Had they gone w Warren, outcome might have been different but too many people are spooked by the actual socialist thing.
Thereโs a lesson in that
OMG I just heard that
@MichaelSteele
has made the big move to
@ProjectLincoln
as a fellow senior adviser. You might not know this but this is a BIG DEAL and a big signal to the GOP campaign world.
Reporters: If you're having trouble finding the balls to ask Republicans tough questions about their ongoing coup conspiracy, just pretend you're talking to Hillary Clinton about her private email server.
My strategic advise for everyone not interested in spending their next decade in an America First reeducation camp is to mock the House GOP majority mercessly. That is how we stop them.
Democrats better figure out real quick that if they don't prosecute Republicans for their real crimes, Republicans will happily prosecute them for fake ones.
The abortion data don't lie. The only women who get late term abortions "on demand" are the ones who are losing their babies and perhaps own lives from complications without it. The entire 'exceptions' framework is a Republican marketing mirage.
I don't throw around terms like nazis, fascism, or Hilter casually. I'm using them only after months of careful research into how democracies collapse and an effort to prove today's Republican Party wasn't actually turning fascist.
The research proved the exact opposite.
Media, and I mean MAJOR media figures, are inadvertently normalizing the idea that a president could steal an election.
If youโre gonna talk about him DOING it- you need to talk about the IMPLICATIONS.
Otherwise, you are NORMALIZING the end of democracy!!
Maybe if Lauren Boebert had spent more time on sex ed and less time trying to groom the next Kyle Rittenhouse, she coulda made it to 40 before grannying up.
Ronna McDaniel was balls deep in the coup plot. She flew to swing states to encourage Republican state legislators and Republican election officials to submit fraudulent electors to steal the election from Joe Biden. If I was an
@NBCNews
employee Iโd be pissed.
I defy anyone, especially the editorial staff at
@NBCNews
to find any single press conference, press release, or on-air hit where Ronna did NOT spread demonstrable lies to the American public.
That is who NBC just allocated a salary for.
Absolutely reprehensible malpractice.
Fact: When you get a drivers license or a state ID from DMV you prove your citizenship via your birth certificate and your social security card.
No one is registered to vote at DMV who is not a citizen.
Mike Johnson knows this. He and Trump are setting up their next big lie.
โYou want someoneโฆ to stand in front of the House Judiciary Committee and lead the Pledge of Allegiance, at a bare minimum, letโs guarantee that person has not participated, supported, or in anyway, helped an overthrow of the government.โ
Just your annual reminder that if people would have just voted for Hillary, weโd be on year 7 of the first liberal Supreme Court majority in decades.
Dear men,
You donโt โget overโ a bunch of old men stripping you of your bodily autonomy.
-American women
Florida Democrats flip Republican House seat in Special Election.
Republicans have gutted the senior command of our military, left the House with no Speaker, and left Israel with no US ambassador but tell me again how itโs Bidenโs fault.
Star witness against Fani Willis is falling apart on the stand right after being reminded you have to tell the truth.
Canโt remember when Fani Willis told her about dating Wade. Canโt remember what was said. When her atty tried to help with โis it something you talked aboutโฆ
Trump intentionally stole, revealed, and then hid our nationโs top military secrets. Itโs the worst betrayal of Americaโs national security in history.
Pretty clear that Lake had it set up to film
@RubenGallego
to try to get a gotcha moment but all she got was what Democrats give: sane and well thought out policy recommendations
Maybe you shouldnโt be hosting one of the most important narrative setting Sunday news shows if youโve never heard of the CHIPS Act and are using your ignorance to perpetuate myths about the economy.
#Bidenomics
I am going to "live tweet" the year 1933, the year Hitler took office.
I will begin on Jan 30th, with his swearing in.
The goal of this project is so people can see how Germany went from a democracy to dictatorship in just
6 months.
Please tell your friends:
Theโฆ
Dear
@kwelkernbc
America is not โdeeply divided.โ
The Republican Party has collapsed into a MAGA cult where people are told Joe Biden stole the election and the only remedy is a fascist autocracy led by Trump.
The rest of us are just trying to save democracy, and are riskingโฆ
I realize mocking House Republicans rather than rebutting their crazy with facts will be very hard for House Democrats, but I'm here to tell them, that is EXACTLY what the research into gaslighting tells you to do. The ONLY thing to do.
Breaking: Jan 6th Commission is considering criminal referral to DOJ for former President Trump over his attempt to illegally seize power after the 2020 election
Nikki Haley, herself a mother via IVF, responds to questions about Alabama Republicans banning it by saying โall life is precious.โ
We canโt trust a single one of these fascists.
Itโs time to tell America the story of what happened to their money ๐
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says.
Women only gained economic & sexual freedom because of the ability to control the consequences of sex. When women say "its about controlling women" that's what we mean.
Hey
@MeetThePress
? Are you planning on normalizing the fascist rally Republicans just held in Texas in your coverage tomorrow? 1st fascist rally EVER hosted by a major American party. Do you agree it was fascist rhetoric?
Every single Republican that opens their mouth to drop the Big Lie in an interview better get "did you know about the coup plot?" thrown right back at them
Democrats are poised to do something that has only been done twice in 50 years: disrupt a midterm effect. Can't tell you what it took to bring us to this position, keep hammering Republicans HARD.
House Republicans relied on a Russian spy to smear Joe Biden.
Media: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Steve Bannon and his cpac friends openly discuss overthrowing the government & installing a Republican autocracy.
Media: zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Politically motivated prosecutor uses report to smearโฆ
Start asking random old folks if they've heard that Republicans plan to end Social Security. And for God's sake, get this all over the sun belt states.
Journalists, PLEASE, if you are going to mention the WH's rebuttal to
@MichaelCohen212
's allegations (that Cohen is untrustworthy bc he's a convicted felon) then you simply MUST include the caveat:
*in crimes in which the president remains an unindicted co-conspirator
Come on!!
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