PFAW Member -- I had to add an important addendum to the list I emailed earlier of ways the Right is trying to exploit this crisis to push their agenda and for their own political benefit.
As Aaron Black at the Washington Post pointed out today, Republicans are also enjoying that this crisis could cause problems for ballot access this year, and they're trying to thwart efforts to make it possible for people to vote! Trump himself was clear that the motive is the same as the one that's always behind the Right's voter suppression efforts:
In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Trump referenced proposals from Democrats in the coronavirus stimulus negotiations that would have vastly increased funding for absentee and vote-by-mail options. The final package included $400 million for the effort, which was far less than what Democrats had sought.
“The things they had in there were crazy,” Trump said. “They had things — levels of voting that, if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
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PFAW Member,
We’re watching the Right Wing very closely – as we always do, with PFAW’s Right Wing Watch – and the trends we’re seeing from the Trump administration and its Republican allies amidst this global health crisis are beyond disturbing.
Conspiracy theories and dangerous disinformation from the Right have exploded, which, unfortunately, is not unexpected. But what’s arguably just as dangerous – especially over the long term – is the naked opportunism we’re seeing from right-wing officials, from Trump all the way on down.
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Republican state officials are trying to use the pandemic as an excuse to shut down access to abortion…
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is exploiting the crisis to push education privatization schemes in the form of more school vouchers that would take money from public schools…
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Trump has announced a freeze on the enforcement of all federal environmental regulations and protections, including rolling back the fuel emissions standards that have been the centerpiece of the U.S. effort to combat climate change …
And the list continues to grow…
If they are able to get away with these infringements on the rights and interests of the public, does anyone really think they’ll reinstate the protections they’re now trying to deny without a fight?
We need to fight back to stop the erosion of our liberties during this crisis and continue our push to hold Trump Republicans accountable by defeating them up and down the ballot.
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And there is so. Much. Work. To. Do.
All of the exploitation of this crisis by the Right that we’re seeing so far is bound to get worse, so we need your help to keep sounding the alarm.
And, of course, the Trump administration – mostly through the Treasury Department, headed by Trump lackey Steve Mnuchin – will be in charge of dispersing the half a trillion dollars to corporations that Congress just authorized with its coronavirus relief legislation … so we need to be extra vigilant in making sure the Trump administration doesn’t use that money for corrupt corporate kickbacks and shameless self-enrichment.
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