The Bogeyman!

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The Republicans are falling back on their tried-and-true approach of attacking the bogeyman: trans athletes, immigrants, minorities, and other marginalized groups.

They want to distract voters from their issues and redirect their anger at us! Never mind the war, never mind the economy, never mind the ballooning deficit. We are the real causes of all the woes in the country!

The Republicans know that they can’t win on the issues, so they are like the wizard in The Wizard of Oz, distracting voters to keep them from looking behind the curtain.

But for them, it will be a losing strategy. The voters have seen behind the curtain.

So the Republicans fall back on their second strategy… cheat! Block voters who usually vote liberal, rearrange the voting districts to give themselves an edge, and do away with Black-majority voting districts, while the Supreme Court has started dismantling the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

This November, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. It will determine whether we go down the road to the “isms”—fascism, authoritarianism, oligarchism—or whether we continue with this great experiment in democracy.

We cannot let the Republicans scare us with their bogeyman.

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