Former President Donald Trump launches a social platform.
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In the parallel world in which Republicans live, their central figure —former President Donald Trump, the king of lies and conspiracy theories— launches a social platform, ironically called Truth (TRUTH Social), after being vetoed by traditional networks Twitter and Facebook social. This, for promoting lies about his defeat in the 2020 general elections.
With this kind of cybernetic oxymoron we can already realize the kind of media monstrosity that awaits the United States and how that platform will turn the lie into a permanently masked “truth”. And when it comes to immigration, it is certain that each and every one of the attacks that the former president has launched against undocumented immigrants since he appeared in the US political firmament will be reproduced there.
In a few words, it will be a space for rejoicing, neither more nor less, for those who, out of ignorance who promote racism and xenophobia, prefer to be deceived than to make an intellectual effort to get rid of the ballast that a character like Trump has become in history. national, especially in the area of migration.
I mean, with Trump running the show, the Republicans have already made a habit of torturing the truth to death. Even knowing that they themselves are the primary victims of all this sea of lies.
In this way, the terrorists who stormed the federal Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a failed coup attempt to prevent Congress from certifying the electoral victory of Joe Biden, are, before the Republicans, “patriots” who exercised “ peacefully” their right to protest. Trump even said that if he returned to the White House, he would grant them presidential pardons.
That is obvious, and it would not be unreasonable to think that one of his first media campaigns through his new platform would be, precisely, to promote the idea that said mob of drones deserves not only forgiveness, but even decorations for blindly obeying a false leader. .
In this parallel and hypocritical world, the Republicans who dare to confront Trump or question the lies that he and his followers promote will become traitors who must be expelled from the community. Republican congressmen Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, for example, were sanctioned by the Republican Party for joining the panel investigating the January 6 riots, which that group classified as a “legitimate exercise in political discourse.” Both congressmen actively denounced Trump for falsely stating that he lost re-election because Biden committed electoral “fraud.”
In fact, the leader of the Republican minority in the House, Kevin McCarthy, is supporting the candidate Harriet Hagman who faces Liz Cheney in the primary in August for the district that she represents in Wyoming. Hagman is pro-Trump.
Thus, the cult of Trump lives on. Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, announced the 11-point Plan to “rescue” the United States, and one of the sections proposes finishing the border wall and baptizing it with the name of “Trump ”. It is one more example of how the Republican Party continues to resort to demagogy on the immigration issue even after Trump.
But he’s not the only one. There we have Governor Ron DeSantis, who has made shameful political use of immigrant minors by pressing for the closure of shelters that take in undocumented minors who arrive in the United States without their parents. Or to the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, who in the midst of his November re-election campaign has once again dared to use the same chant of blaming undocumented immigration for crime in his state, knowing that study after study shows otherwise. Or even the attorney general of Arizona, Mark Brnovich, who is seeking a seat in the federal Senate, has pushed for the governor of that state, Doug Ducey, to respond with a military force against what he wrongly calls an “invasion” of immigrants. across the southern border.
The sad thing about this whole situation is that despite their demagoguery and their lies, the Republicans continue to appeal to a wide sector of the electorate. And that includes many Latinos in key states and districts in the upcoming midterm elections this year and in the 2024 general election.
Regardless of who is the Republican figure that emerges, especially for the 2024 elections – be it Trump, De Santis or any other – the challenge for the Democrats is enormous not only because of their internal divisions, but because they face a real machine of lies Republicans in various areas, including immigration, which, however, enjoy acceptance among a broad group of voters.
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