Has anyone else noticed the glaring contradition . . .

[markpkessinger]

. . . of Trump and Republicans claiming, on the one hand, that Democrats are "big government interventionists," and simultaneously claiming, on the other, that Democrats support anarchists? I mean, I get that Republicans long ago left by the wayside any pretense of making logicallh consistent arguments, but really!

[Sherman A1]

1. Don't look for the logic

It's like wrestling a pig..... You will just make your head hurt.

[ck4829]

2. Sherman had it right... just no, just don't.

You'll go cross-eyed trying to make sense of the compartmentalization and mental acrobatics.

[unblock]

3. They only care about the emotional content of the words they use

They're not interested in logic. They'd call us poopyheads if they thought they could use that term to good effect. But they don't want to look quite that obviously childish.

Well, Donnie doesn't mind looking childish, so he calls people playground names all the time. But most republicans want to sound like they think politicians ought to sound like, so they call us big government interventionists or anarchists or socialists or fascists or fiscally irresponsible or tax hikers or whatever.

They sound like political terms and they sound negative, especially if they say it with disgust, and that's all they care about.

It doesn't bother them that the terms don't apply to us or are even contradictory. It's all about the emotional smear.

[thucythucy]

4. Their rejection of logic goes back

at least as far as FDR.

During the 1944 campaign FDR pointed out that Republicans were accusing him of being both a monarchist AND a communist, often in the same speech.

They also spread conspiracy theories about his dog. Seriously, about Fala. FDR famously made short work of THAT CT.