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Speaking of "whataboutism" democrats are doing everything humanly possible to keep people's minds and discussions off of just how bad the economy is between now and election day.‘Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon.
That’s the message the Republican Party, Donald Trump, and conservative leaders rapidly coalesced around after a series of mass shootings in recent weeks, including at one at a Texas elementary school.
Several strategy memos and private communications, prepared for a variety of conservative candidates and organizations, reviewed by Rolling Stone in the days following the Uvalde school massacre were clear: change the topic to literally anything else, and let this news cycle run its course.
“Ignore guns, talk inflation,” one such memo, written for a top-tier GOP Senate candidate, succinctly reads, citing polling data of voter concerns ahead of the critical 2022 midterm elections. Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for “gun-grabbing” and “gun confiscation,” and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago.’
'Ignore Guns, Talk Inflation': Memos Show GOP Strategy After the Uvalde Massacre
The GOP plan? Change the topic to literally anything else. Trump, for his part, “talked a lot more about Johnny Depp than he did about guns”www.rollingstone.com
Run out the clock until November, of course.
With control of Congress next January, Republicans can ignore mass shootings, gun crime and violence altogether.
Republicans are right not to get pulled off topic.