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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon May 28, 2018, 10:10 AM May 2018

White House Aide Reveals Racist Midterm Strategy

Oliver Willis

May 28, 2018 2:05 am

According to senior adviser Stephen Miller, the Trump White House has settled on a campaign stoking racism as a desperate ploy to keep Republicans in control of Congress.

Miller made that admission in an interview with Breitbart, the white supremacist website known for highlighting “black crime.” Miller, among the most loyal of Trump’s underlings, once infamously announced that Trump’s power “will not be questioned” and attacked the pro-immigrant message etched on the Statue of Liberty.

Miller explained to Breitbart that lacking any strong, positive message going into the midterm elections, Republicans plan to use the criminal gang MS-13 as a boogeyman to scare up votes.

“The big fight this summer is going to be with the open borders Democratic caucus in Congress,” Miller said, using a lie that Republicans have often used to attack Democrats. There is no such thing as an “open borders” faction in Congress; Republicans like Miller simply use the inflammatory term to attack those who are pro-immigrant.

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White House Aide Reveals Racist Midterm Strategy (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
As noted in the story, campaigning on stopping MS-13 hasn't been a winning strategy for Republicans bearsfootball516 May 2018 #1
The GOP never stopped. Iliyah May 2018 #2
That website is literally 80 percents ads oberliner May 2018 #3
Democrats need to make memes etc with MS-13 as a bogeyman. So voter hears MS-13, thinks Rs bogus. nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2018 #4
Stephen Miller, don't you have a baby momma to continue stalking? TheBlackAdder May 2018 #5

bearsfootball516

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1. As noted in the story, campaigning on stopping MS-13 hasn't been a winning strategy for Republicans
Mon May 28, 2018, 10:16 AM
May 2018

It was a main component of Ed Gillespie's campaign in the Virginia Governor's race last year, and he got destroyed.

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