The Lies And Disinformation Are All Part Of The Plan

There is noth­ing remark­able or shock­ing about the Republican’s stance on Donald Trump tak­ing and keep­ing clas­si­fied gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments and refus­ing to give them back.
There is noth­ing remark­able about their excite­ment that Biden’s peo­ple found clas­si­fied doc­u­ments at his prop­er­ties and noti­fied the nation­al archives and the FBI.
Finally, it is not sur­pris­ing that this was the open­ing Republicans were hop­ing for to cre­ate the false nar­ra­tive of what-about-ism.
Republicans have no inter­est in see­ing the gov­ern­ment work unless they are in charge. The inves­ti­ga­tion is the point in hear­ings that will come from this, as well as Hunter Biden’s lap­top and oth­er fish­ing expe­di­tions. This is the Biden administration’s Benghazi.
With Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, no one should be delud­ed about what the next two years will be about. McCarthy gushed about the results of the fraud­u­lent Benghazi hear­ings years ago, and he sees con­tin­ued inves­ti­ga­tions as a win­ning strat­e­gy for Republicans.
The Republicans who show up on FOX ‘dis­in­for­ma­tion’ net­works do not show up to debate events or make ratio­nal argu­ments of equiv­a­lence; they show up to build out pre-planned lies and disinformation.
No one should be under any illu­sions about their intent; they all know what they say are lies. The lies are a fea­ture, not a bug.

Conscientious Americans shocked by what Republicans are doing, vot­er-sup­pres­sion laws, book burn­ings, polit­i­cal vio­lence, xeno­pho­bia, bla­tant racism, and oth­er anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic actions should under­stand that this is only the beginning.
The Republican par­ty is no longer a par­ty that believes in Democracy. From as far back as the 2000 pres­i­den­tial elec­tions, and maybe even far­ther back, the par­ty real­ized it had become a minor­i­ty party.
But for the Electoral College, in 2000, there would have been no pres­i­dent George W Bush. Still, there is an elec­toral col­lege, so we nev­er got to see what pres­i­dent Al Gore could have accom­plished as the 43^rd President of the United States, despite receiv­ing 543 895 more votes than Bush.
Sixteen years lat­er, accord­ing to CNN, Senator Hillary Clinton would receive 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%) in a final vote tal­ly, yet lose the pres­i­den­cy to the rep­re­hen­si­ble nar­cis­sis­tic liar Donald Trump.
Convinced of his ille­git­i­ma­cy, Trump tweet­ed, “In addi­tion to win­ning the Electoral College in a land­slide, I won the pop­u­lar vote if you deduct the mil­lions of peo­ple who vot­ed ille­gal­ly.”
It was a lie, but lies were cen­tral to Donald Trump’s brand. His busi­ness­es, his per­sona, and every­thing about him was a lie. Nonetheless, Trump became an American icon despite it. His polit­i­cal cam­paign became a pos­si­bil­i­ty, launched arguably on the lie that President Barack Obama was born out­side the United States and, there­fore, illegitimate.
Pressed to pro­duce evi­dence to back up his claims, Trump lied that he had sent inves­ti­ga­tors to Hawaii, Obama’s birth­place, to find the evidence.….….which nev­er materialized.
Donald Trump chal­lenged the doc­u­ment when Obama pro­duced his long-form birth cer­tifi­cate refut­ing Trump’s lies.
Though Donald Trump was proven to be a lying char­la­tan and a despi­ca­bly self-serv­ing los­er, he would go on to win the Republican nom­i­na­tion and be elect­ed pres­i­dent in the elec­toral college.
Trump would be impeached twice by con­gress in his sin­gle term, a first-ever, but the Republican-con­trolled Senate failed to remove him for his high crimes and misdemeanors.
After los­ing the pres­i­den­tial elec­tions of 2020, Donald Trump incit­ed an insur­rec­tion to storm Congress to stop the cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the vote, a first in the nation’s history.

Conventional wis­dom would dic­tate that the Republican par­ty would ditch Donald Trump and his lies and seek to rein­gra­ti­ate itself with the plu­ral­i­ty of American vot­ers, large­ly by embrac­ing a raft of ideas amenable to them.
No, the stakes for the Republicans were too impor­tant to try a big-tent approach; in fact, the Democrats are the big-tent, Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, les­bians, gays, and workers.
Republicans dou­bled down on Trumpism; they would pass laws to make it extreme­ly dif­fi­cult for peo­ple of col­or to vote, make it a crime for women to have abor­tions, and launch a war against immi­grants of col­or com­ing into the country.
They have no care about Black or Brown abor­tions; the idea is to ensure that white women do not abort a sin­gle white baby, regard­less of the risk to the mother.
In 2019 Brookings​.edu report­ed that for the first time, non-Hispanic white res­i­dents now make up less than half (49.9%) of the nation’s under age 15 pop­u­la­tion, accord­ing to new­ly released 2018 U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
The report stat­ed this phe­nom­e­non, which is pro­ject­ed to con­tin­ue, empha­sizes the need for insti­tu­tions that focus on chil­dren and young fam­i­lies to proac­tive­ly accom­mo­date the inter­ests of more racial­ly diverse pop­u­la­tions, as the lat­ter will be key play­ers in the country’s demo­graph­ic and eco­nom­ic future.
These sta­tis­tics only bore out what many whites in the United States already lived in fear of for decades and maybe since the for­ma­tion of the Republic.
If you believe the land you stand on is your God-giv­en birthright, then you also believe you have the right to decide who gets to live on that land or who enjoys the fruits thereof.
The Republican par­ty had long become the par­ty of white men, and so the bat­tle lines have long been drawn for America.
If the Republicans can­not win at the bal­lot box, they do not have the issues; they do not have the num­bers, and even with vot­er sup­pres­sion laws and intim­i­da­tion tac­tics, they will try to do it by force.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.