Republican lawmakers have tried to cancel everything from the 81 million people who voted for Joe Biden to now trying even to cancel free pizza for people on line waiting to vote in Georgia.
The truth — as the GOP must know — is that neither the decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises to stop printing six titles that the company deemed were “hurtful and wrong” in the depiction of certain minority communities nor Hasbro’s decision to drop the “Mr.” from its “Mr. Potato Head” toy involved President Biden or Democratic members of Congress. But facts don’t matter when it comes to Republicans trying to distract from their lack of policies to help Americans in need or score political points.
Republicans spun these stories, especially Dr. Seuss, like it was an official decision by the Democratic Party. Sen. Ted Cruz, who truly has earned Donald Trump’s nickname of “Lyin’ Ted,” tweeted, “Joe Biden trying to cancel Dr. Seuss.” While House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy openly lied on the floor of the House, declaring, “First, they outlaw Dr. Seuss and now they want to tell us what to say.”
Over on GOP TV, aka Fox News, there was a lot of time spent discussing Mr. Potato Head being “canceled.” While channels such as CNN and MSNBC carried live Tuesday’s testimony by FBI Director Christopher Wray about the details of the January 6 insurrection incited by Trump, Fox News did not. Instead, it mentioned Wray only nine times — compared to more than 60 references to Dr. Seuss being “canceled.” Cancel culture was even a theme at the recent CPAC conference.
This is not by happenstance. As of now, “cancel culture” is the GOP’s issue for the 2022 midterms. Indeed, former Trump White House aide Mercedes Schlapp told Politico this about how important the “cancel culture” issue is for the GOP’s 2022 strategy: “At the end of the day I think it unifies the party but expands it into the area we need to — the suburban moms, the college educated men that we struggled with in 2020, there’s common…
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