Seriously, is that all Rs have to do?

[senseandsensibility]

Just scream "communism"? That makes trump's low poll numbers, disastrous war, affordability crisis and corruption scandals all go away?

To listen to them and to much of the corporate media, the answer, is yes.

[Chipper Chat]

1. That and trans people using the wrong bathroom

[Lonestarblue]

2. If it isn't communism, it's socialism or some other ism with no connection to reality.

Republicans are good at making up lies to get ill-informed people who prefer conspiracies to facts to vote for them.

[senseandsensibility]

7. And they can count on having partners in the corporate media when they do so

[Mossfern]

3. Apparently

they don't know what Communism is. It's the equivalent of them screaming "Cooties."

[senseandsensibility]

4. Exactly.

Perfect analogy.

[underpants]

5. Well, the DO want to move back to the 50's

at least their idea of what the 50’s were.

Good old fashioned Red Baiting.

[intrepidity]

6. Heather Cox Richardson just did a great podcast on this

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/politics-chat-june-25-2026-add

[Initech]

8. Well, who needs to think when News Corporation does all your thinking for you?

Fuck Fox News!

[struggle4progress]

9. "I'm a man without conviction; I'm a man who doesn't know"

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. This is part of a pattern