GOP Messaging On “Socialism” Flops Spectacularly

The GOP has done absolutely nothing, so this is their brilliant solution: Run as a “firewall against Socialism.”

Hey, why don’t you guys just build the ACTUAL wall and stop importing third world immigrants who vote for socialism? That sounds like a much better plan to me @GOP. pic.twitter.com/8nukD7RlsV

— Rural American (@MiaVendetta110) April 29, 2019

AP:

“ALAMOSA, Colo. (AP) — In this scruffy, high-desert town encircled by prairies and potato farms, Sen. Cory Gardner drew shouts of approval last week for his message that Democrats are shoving the country toward socialism.

“That’s not what government is or what it should be,” he told about 200 Alamosa County Republicans at a barbecue fundraiser in a National Guard armory. “We have to stand up and fight. Are you going to join me in this fight?”

For Gardner and other Republicans making the same pitch , including President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the key question is whether it will attract moderate voters, not just their conservative stalwarts. Based on interviews with over three dozen Coloradans last week from Denver’s suburbs south to this town in the flat San Luis Valley, the argument has yet to take root, though the GOP has 18 months to sell it before Election Day 2020. …”

The Hill:

“A significant majority of Americans would favor a wealth tax on the nation’s 75,000 richest families to pay for a new higher education initiative put forward by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) that would make state and community colleges tuition-free and pay off most existing student loan debts, according to poll released Monday.

In the latest Hill-HarrisX survey, 64 percent of registered voters said that they would support such a plan.

(The poll did not attach Warren’s name to the proposal, and instead summarized its provisions.)

The Massachusetts senator has been making new policy provisions the cornerstone of her campaign to become the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nominee. …”