Another GOP Fundraising Trip to the Border Cause this is Politics, Not Policy

It doesn’t get extra cynical: as we speak, Home Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) will lead a delegation to the border. To not suggest options. To not deal with the regional disaster that propels migrants and refugees to our southern border. To not assist youngsters get reunited with their dad and mom. Quite, Scalise and his Republican posse of wannabe border brokers are staging a photograph shoot to make use of of their subsequent fundraising shakedown focused to get each final nickel out of their base voters on Fb. Hopefully, pundits, journalists, and the general public will see via this skinny veneer of lying, and name out this stunt for what it’s: a strategic racist ploy it truly is and reject the politicization of what’s for essentially the most half determined migrant youngsters. 

Scalise’s touring circus of fear-mongers is, sadly, nothing new. Home Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy led an identical delegation a pair weeks in the past. Adopted by Ted Cruz, and 17 different Republican Senators using boats armed with machine weapons alongside tourist boats. All within the hopes of getting footage for marketing campaign advertisements and to try to create a distraction from their failure to ship financial or COVID-19 reduction to the American folks and GOP culpability within the terrorist assault on the U.S. Capitol constructing.  And, whereas Cruz and his crew have been on the border, the Texas GOP was internet hosting an anti-immigrant rally in Laredo that featured the founding father of the Oathkeepers.

Borderline Sleaze to Squeeze Their Base

How do we all know that is the Republican plan? Effectively the fundraising has already begun. Listed here are some examples of the xenophobic dog-whistle advertisements already in use: 

The hyperlinks to all these advertisements take you to a fundraising touchdown pages that appear like this: 

Within the particular election in Texas’s sixth Home District, Republican Brian Harrison launched a TV ad solely centered on pushing the deeply deceptive Republican political body of “Biden’s Border Disaster.” This advert doubtless a prescient instance of what’s to come back within the 2022 midterms.

However, let’s be clear, Republicans tried this technique within the 2018 midterm elections and it flopped. Up and down the ticket they ran aggressive xenophobic dog-whistle advertisements. And their closing electoral pitch? Migrant caravans. It was one in all their fundamental marketing campaign messages and resulted in historic losses for the GOP.

It Could also be Good for the GOP Base, however Company America Doesn’t Like It

The Republican’s reliance on strategic racism has lethal penalties when people and teams are mobilized to violence. However, it additionally could also be scaring off the strong assist and firehose of money Republicans depend on from company America. Laborious to think about that the most important companies who’re expressing dismay over GOP voter suppression efforts will wish to be linked to racist, xenophobic advertisements. Even Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell seems fearful and is issuing broadsides towards company America although making it clear he wasn’t speaking about their political donations. However the GOP seems decided to double down on this failing technique as soon as once more, penalties be damned. Hopefully, the American folks will once more present them on the poll field that they’re uninterested in the GOP’s divide and distract techniques favoring as an alternative actual options to deal with the nation’s challenges and enhance their very own lives.  And, at America’s Voice, we’ll preserve monitoring and exposing the GOPracist, xenophobic, and anti-immigrant content material.