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Manchin’s Betrayal Typifies Long-Standing Conservative Misinformation Campaign Against American Worker
“Misinformation” has become the new political buzzword to label the trend popularized by the Trump White House and its right-wing lackeys to engage shamelessly in a concerted, crafted, and highly-disciplined campaign to spread outright distortions of reality in their efforts to secure political power.
From the “big lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump, to the continued insistence that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax or could be cured by chugging Lysol, to the cornucopia of QAnon conspiracy theories, Trump and the armies of Trumpist militants across the nation have orchestrated this misinformation campaign, hornswoggling working Americans to the detriment of their own interests.
Trendy as the buzzword “misinformation” is and as perfectly as it describes a chief tactic of Trumpism, however, we have to recognize that misinformation campaigns are not a new practice for conservative ideologues in American politics. Indeed, as I’ve written about on multiple occasions in the pages of PoliticusUsa (here, here, and here), there is no such thing as a “conservative conscience” or “principled Republican” that differentiates itself from the contemporary Trump-inspired politics and practices of the Republican Party. Remember the…
