Ezra Levin’s latest Indivisible email (also available here) precisely nails Donald Trump’s lies and duplicity when it comes to his so-called “position” on abortion rights. Trump has a years-long record of wanting to take those rights away. Yet in a recent statement he seemed to strike a more moderate tone. Don’t believe it! As he himself tacitly admitted, he’s just lying to win votes. After the election, it will be back to business as usual.
Unfortunately (and sadly predictably), “the immediate reaction from the media was to take the telegraphed lie at face value.” Ezra sums up the situation this way:
This is a GOP-wide strategy. Their plan over the next 6.5 months is to lie and obfuscate about abortion because they know if they state the positions they actually hold and have publicly held for years, they’ll lose.
We have to cut through the bullshit. You and I both know the Republicans are lying. But we’re not the target audience for their lies. They want the disaffected and “double-hater” voters who distrust both sides to go into the polling booth thinking, “the GOP isn’t so bad on abortion, so I’m going to vote on other issues.” Our job over the next 6.5 months is to bring the truth to these voters: The GOP is an existential threat to our rights and freedoms. The contrast could not be clearer: Donald Trump and the Republicans will take away your rights, and Joe Biden and the Democrats will codify your rights.
It’s fascism or freedom on the ballot this November. Or as the posters say, Roevember is coming.
