From the Border to Bump Stocks, the MAGA Lie Machine Is Heating Up

In
response, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on October 23, 1940, warned the
nation: “Truthful campaign discussion of public issues is essential to the
American form of Government; but willful misrepresentation of fact has no place
either during election time or at any other time.”

In
Roosevelt’s time there was a rightwing press, but it was mostly fringe. Today’s
press bears little resemblance to the media of the 1940s. Over 1,500 right-wing
and 800 religious radio stations and hundreds of right-wing television stations
daily sing the praises of Trump and the GOP, repeating the latest insane lies
as if they’re gospel truth. This has created the perfect opening for a soulless
Republican Party and its MAGA candidates to fully embrace Goebbels’s Big Lie
strategy. And they’re doing it with gusto.

Former
Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger writes
on his Substack blog: “In the latest how-low-can-they-go, the GOP and
Fox News seem to have worked together to distribute a maliciously doctored bit
of video that targets President Biden’s mental capacity. The video supposedly
shows him wandering away from other leaders at the G-7 summit in Italy, as if
he doesn’t quite know where he is and what’s going on.”