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Archive, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/LawMarch 1, 2023

‘He Gets Us’ and Sleazy ‘Swift Boat’ Ads Share a Central Figure — Further Evidence of a Right-Wing Bait-and-Switch

By Chrissy Stroop

One of the funnier developments in the ongoing drama around the “He Gets Us” campaign…

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"Ultimately, power and control are the predicates of morality and virtue," writes Peter Schwartz. "The language of Catholic natural law makes this clear. The telos, or goal, of natural law in politics is power, not freedom." https://t.co/0NchGshwSg

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A little less than year ago, @bradstoddard wrote for RD on the AR-15 and its use in the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings. In Nashville, the pattern repeats. https://t.co/m4mH6f5x3s https://t.co/kJfdbC3E0T

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"If the government is the enemy, if Trump’s enemies are inhuman, if the stakes are the very survival of America and the end of the world, this is fuel for the next domestic terrorist incident." @tlecaque and @ardenthistorian on Trump's Waco rally: https://t.co/sBPXWC3W8O

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