Posted on 08/24/2022 6:59:44 PM PDT by DoodleBob
For much of the midterm campaign, Democrats have grappled with how to define their message, weighing slogans like “Democrats deliver” and “Build back better,” and issuing warnings against “ultra-MAGA” Republicans.
Now, a coalition of progressive organizations has settled on what its leaders hope will be a unified pitch from the left. This November, they plan to argue, Americans must vote to protect the fundamental freedoms that “Trump Republicans” are trying to take away.
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The move is the latest evidence that Democrats....are increasingly seeking to reclaim language about freedom and personal liberty from Republicans. It is a dynamic that grew out of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June, and one that is intensifying as more states navigate abortion bans while Republicans nominate election deniers for high office.
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What is most striking about the initiative is not the initial size of the investment — there is a $5 million national paid-media component associated with the campaign, a relatively modest sum — but the fact that left-wing organizations are now embracing language that has been more closely associated with small-government-minded conservatives.
“For far too long, we’ve witnessed how the right wing has masterfully sort of owned and captured the language of freedom,” said Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, one of the organizations involved in the “Protect Our Freedoms” effort.
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But Republicans have long cast their party as the bastion of freedom — whether as the defender of free markets or more recently, in opposition to coronavirus-related mandates.
In a statement, Emma Vaughn, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, highlighted the effort to paint Democrats as anti-freedom over pandemic measures, calling them the party of “shuttered businesses, school lockdowns, masks on toddlers and forced vaccines.”
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Tough talk from the vaccine mandate crowd.
YUP.
And brutal, Nazi type lockdowns.
Don’t believe anything you read in the democrat left wing media.
ANYTHING !!!
The nyt is the communist arm of the democrats party.
Left wing rubbish and Lies.
You said it. It’s non stop bombardment of lies and spin, with brainwashing and mind control mixed in. It’s a jumble of the addled brains and imaginations of Bolshevik maniacs, hardly the news.
GOPeers are not about Personal Liberty.
It’s just not in their wheelhouse.
[freedom] == [free stuff]
I was always as the sarcastic bumper sticker said,
“Question Authority. Why? Because I said so, that’s why.”
This is all just Narrative gas to cover The Cheat.
No one has a right to kill another human being except in defense of self, family, or country. Period.
Taxes are slavery. Inflation to pay for government money-printing is taxation.
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