As shown at left, Republicans generally believe that their country either is failing, or has already failed, in many essential ways.
This may have begun with the Big Lie, i.e., the groundless assertion that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump, which ended tens of millions of voters’ confidence in the integrity of U.S. democracy after 240 years of success. It’s kind of ironic that confidence in election integrity was considered to be stronger before the information age, when massive cheating actually could have happened undetected.
In any case, the supposed failure of the United States is now emblazoned into Republicans’ minds with concepts like:
• Biden has opened our borders, giving away our jobs and killing our kids with overdoses of fentanyl.
• The U.S. economy is in freefall decline.
• Our military is now so woke that it’s no longer capable of defending our country.
• Crime rates are on the rise, and immigrants are the cause.
Part of the human condition is that we find ways to believe what make us feel good inside. But never before has the world’s most powerful democracy fallen prey to such a huge and calculated profusion of lies.
Here’s another reminder of how far to the extreme low brow right the American conservative movement has swung.
The only political experience Mike Lindell has comes from his having eagerly accepted Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was rigged with massive voter fraud, for which there is exactly zero evidence.
As a consequence, Lindell is facing multiple lawsuits, including a June 2025 verdict ordering him to pay $2.3 million to a former Dominion Voting Systems employee for defamation. He also faces lawsuits from Smartmatic for defamation and a suit over a $3 million unpaid loan.
That’s it, folks. No experiencing running a small town in Alabama, let alone a state full of well-educated progressives in which Trump lost to Kamala Harris by a full 4% in 2024.
Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Endorses Mike Lindell
My advice to David:
I doubt this misleading crap is going to work in Dallas County, where voters are relatively well educated and sophisticated.
You’ll need to some place full of real bumpkins, which, in Texas, shouldn’t be too great a challenge.
Some may find the claim at left compelling.
But consider Japan, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland that are almost completely atheist. The other nations in Western Europe have also steadily moved away from religion.
Have they “lost their countries,” or is this a present-day scare tactic directed by fear-mongers, just as it has been since the Dark Ages?
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