https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-22-2026
"“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats
communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of
the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Really? Communists? Did we accidentally step into a time machine?”
“I get it,” he said. “They don’t want to talk about the real issues, the bread
and butter issues. They don’t want to talk about affordability. I guess my
question is, is Joe McCarthy back from the dead? Because it sounds like that’s
who wrote all the garbage coming from Republicans, about communism. These guys,
they dust off the same, tired, old talking points, every time they’re backed
into a corner. Every time a new poll comes out saying that your economic agenda
sucks, what they do is they change the subject. They try to divert attention.
It is pathetic.
“But fine. They…want to play that game, let’s play that game. Let’s talk about
the Republican Party. A party that worships one man above the Constitution in a
cult of personality. A party that demonizes immigrants and says they poison the
blood of our country. A party that calls the free press the enemy of the people
and sics the Justice Department on journalists who they don’t like. A party
that says their political opponents are internal enemies and calls them, quote,
the enemy within. A party that is okay with invading our allies, including
other democracies, a party that punishes their political opponents, that has
deployed troops on our own streets, that wants to use the American military on
the American people. A party that believes any unhinged lie, fantasy, and
conspiracy theory as long as it comes from one man. A party that tries to lock
up members of Congress for exercising their free speech rights. And a party
that has tried to violently overthrow the results of a free and fair election
in the United States of America. A party that, in fact, pardoned everyone who
invaded this building on January 6, 2021, and tried to throw out the votes of
millions of Americans because the president couldn’t accept that he lost.
“How dare that party lecture anyone? How dare they talk about communism when
their own party has totally lost touch, not just with the founding ideals of
this country, but lost touch with reality itself. So if we’re gonna start
assigning political labels based on conduct, then let’s call things by their
proper names. The Republican Party has become the party of fascism, full stop.
You know, they have become a party of far right fascists who are hell-bent on
destroying our country and our way of life. And every single time they call us
communists, it is nothing more than a projection of their own… radicalization.
“They don’t want to talk about that, and they definitely don’t want to talk
about their higher grocery prices, or skyrocketing gas prices, or higher
inflation, or the cost of health care, or their new, endless, illegal war. It
has now cost over $100 billion. So instead, they scream and they yell because
they have nothing else left to offer.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
