Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
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Republicans have taken up the politics of bigotry, putting US democracy at risk | Robert Reich
There is no ‘surge’ of migrants at the border and there is no huge voter fraud problem – there is only hard-right attack
But the “surge” has been fabricated by Republicans in order to stoke fear – and, not incidentally, to justify changes in laws they say are necessary to prevent non-citizens from voting.
These pieces of nonsense spread because their followers are simple minded peasants who are gullible enough to believe anything.