Trump GOP 'Big Lie 2.0' Plan, Shut Down America In Fall; Intimidate, Nonexistent Voter Fraud Since1964
- 'Trump & the GOP's Big Lie 2.0: Their Plan to Shut Down America This Fall,' Thom Hartmann, *Sept. 5, 2024. Ed. The Hartmann Report. 🇺🇲
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He intends to use it to try to bring the Biden administration, and thus the Harris/Walz campaign, to its knees in the next few weeks... Most even behave as if the GOP’s phony claims of “voter fraud” are legitimate, so they continue to aggressively use them to make voting hard, reject mail-in signatures, and purge voting rolls.
Which brings us to Trump’s iteration of Big Lie 2.0 that we’ll all be talking about soon...
Get ready.
Donald Trump has made good use of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie 1.0, famously claiming that the 2020 “election was stolen” from him. And now he’s preparing to use Big Lie 2.0 to shut down our government this fall, believing it’ll hurt the Biden administration and thus the Harris/Walz campaign. That 2nd weapon — this Big Lie 2.0 — is the false allegation of widespread “voter fraud” in America.
He intends to use it to try to bring the Harris (Biden) administration to its knees in the next few weeks. And, as a bonus, if it works, he gets to prevent millions of people, particularly minorities and women, from voting.
Republicans have been using this lie to attack the heart of our democracy right out in the open ever since the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, the year they responded by rolling out Operation Eagle Eye, yelling about nonexistent “voter fraud” and using it as an excuse to intimidate minority voters in the Goldwater/Johnson race. It’s a phrase they essentially invented, although it was occasionally used by the Confederacy during its later years when they tried to suppress poor white voters who opposed that oligarchy. Former Sup. Ct. Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s Arizona arm of Operation Eagle Eye was one of dozens of such formal and informal Republican voter suppression operations that exploded across the U.S. that year. As The NYT noted on Oct. 30, 1964:
"Republican officials have begun a massive campaign to prevent ‘vote fraud’ in the election next Tuesday, a move that has caused Democrats to cry ‘fraud.’ “The Republican plan, Operation Eagle Eye, is designed, according to party officials, to prevent Democrats from ‘stealing’ the 1964 election. Republicans charge that the election was stolen in 1960.”
Keep in mind, this was novel back then. The “voter fraud” Big Lie was brand new. Nobody had been talking about “voter fraud” outside of a few southern states for a century; the phrase usually appeared in quotation marks as it was so unusual.. No other developed country in the world worries about “voter fraud” because it’s every bit as nonexistent in other modern democracies as it is here. The only country in the world that uses “voter fraud” as an excuse to make it harder for minorities and women to vote is the U.S. Most countries don’t need or want a system to try to cut back on the number of people who can vote...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trump-and-the-gops-big-lie-20-their-996
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