The problem(s) with the GOP blaming Biden for the crisis in Israel

[LetMyPeopleVote]

I remember Jean Kirkpatrick being an asshole a long time ago

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/problems-gop-blaming-biden-crisis-israel-rcna119444

But as important as the factual details are, there’s also a broader problem with the Republicans’ rhetorical tack.

In 1984, during the Republican National Convention, Jeane Kirkpatrick delivered a speech that included a catchphrase that she repeated five times during her remarks: “They always blame America first.” In reference to Democrats, she went on to condemn the “blame America first crowd.”

It was an ugly line of attack, but it caught on and became a favorite of the right, and it’s still embraced by prominent Republicans a generation later. In Nikki Haley’s 2020 remarks at the Republican National Convention, for example, the former ambassador quoted Kirkpatrick and again accused Democrats of “blaming America first.” Last year, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas pushed the same line, declaring on Fox News, “[Biden] and other Democrats like him always blame America first.”

There’s never been any real value in casually throwing around such obnoxious attacks on other Americans’ patriotism, though the line of rhetorical attack has certainly taken on a greater hypocritical dimension as Republicans rush — yet again — to blame their own country’s leadership for deadly violence for which the United States is obviously not responsible.

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1. Now Putin's in Charge and his little

Puppets are to Blame America first.. orders from on High Russian soil

We'll see how that plays out with Indies.

[JohnSJ]

2. It is way past time for Democrats to push back on the lies, and start calling the republicans out.

If we don’t start doing that I have to wonder if we really want to win in 2024, because ignoring the lies is accepting the lies