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Donald now wants to GOTV, despite giant venomous flying spiders, murder hornets and killer bees [1]

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Date: 2024-06-04  

So now the GOP’s leader acknowledges that their voter suppression trope always was a hoax. What other reactionary fears shouldn’t we believe?

x At a time when America faces existential crises, MAGA Republicans are busily manufacturing fake crises. Here are the six most absurd things they're pretending to be mad about now. https://t.co/M6Hqa1xGDD pic.twitter.com/9aLNcUuXT5 — Robert Reich (@RBReich) June 4, 2024

As we slump toward the 2024 election, America faces harrowing existential crises — climate change, the potential loss of our democracy to neofascism, the attack on women’s control over their own bodies, corruption of our politics with big money, widening inequalities of income and wealth, structural racism, and the growing risk of nuclear war.

All require the public’s knowledge and clear-headed attention. All necessitate the best leadership the nation can muster.

But Trump Republicans are busy denying or worsening all of these. With just five months to go before the 2024 election, they’re diverting the public’s attention to manufactured crises. They’re intent on whipping Americans into a fury about giant nothingburgers, such as:

1. Voting by “illegals”

Convicted felon Trump has made a big deal about voting by “illegals.” Elon Musk is helping stoke this on his X platform. House lawmakers have just passed a bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote nationwide.

But there’s no evidence that noncitizens are influencing election results. Even the conservative Cato Institute has found that noncitizens are not voting in detectable numbers. It’s a nothingburger.

The Border

Crime

Trans people, wokeness, critical race theory

Government spending

More nothingburgers

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