![]() ![]() Apparently, the mailer is adapted from a national Republican "the commies are coming!" template. "Vote Tate Reeves on November 5th and STOP the socialist Democrats," our erudite Republican Party proclaimed on the mailer, adding, "Fight the Democrats' socialist agenda" and "STOP the socialist Democrats from taking over." (Repetition is a Republican virtue, apparently.)īut our local geniuses clearly didn't come up with the socialist shtick. Kentucky Republicans are following a similar red-baiting strategy to the Mississippi GOP to defeat local Democrats by lining them up beside national Democrats from across the country. None of the others has a connection to our state, and their politics do not match Hood's, either. One of these pics is not like the other: Hood, a moderately conservative Democrat, is running for office in Mississippi. The Mississippi Republican Party blanketed the state with glossy mailers last week with photos of (from left to right) Nancy Pelosi, Jim Hood, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders crammed up close. Not requiring young teenagers to bear their father's child and allowing women to make our own health-care decisions? Socialism. ![]() Oh, and apparently it's socialism to use taxpayers' own money to fix roads and bridges. Of course, they define that term loosely-as always, "socialism" is a euphemism for any expenditure of taxpayer money to help poor people, ensure access to medical care, regulate corrupt corporations, ensure all American children have equal access to good education, and so on. They are promising us, in no uncertain terms, that men like Tate Reeves will stop the scourge of socialism from taking over our state and America. Republicans are already sending out glossy mailers warming up the crowd in Mississippi and other southern states to the necessity of electing Trump apologists and enablers-that is pretty much what Reeves' whole campaign is about at this point. Should you be lucky enough to attend, you'll likely hear the names Elizabeth Warren (or "Pocahontas"), AOC, Nancy Pelosi and Bernie alongside the word "socialist" a lot. ![]() It seems pretty certain that the New Yorker-turned-Floridian president will be riding in on a red-baiting carpet. Donald Trump is coming to Mississippi today-up there in Tupelo where the American Family Association is headquartered-to urge conservative Mississippians to turn out and elect Lt. ![]()
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