- Fox News Channel personalities knew that Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential election, but pushed the Big Lie of voter fraud anyway to retain viewers.
- The Republican narrative since the 1980s has been to get rid of the active government put in place after 1933 to limit unfettered capitalism and to argue that government regulation, the social safety net, civil rights, and investment in infrastructure were socialism, thus undermining traditional America.
- The Republican narrative has also included cutting Social Security and Medicare, interpreting the Second Amendment to mean that individuals have a right to own whatever weaponry they want, and deregulation.
- The Republican narrative has resulted in the extraordinary claim that the US is a Marxist, communist country and the introduction of a bill to make the AR-15 the National Gun of America.
- There is an increase in mass shootings in the US with 13 people killed and 46 injured from February 17-19, 2023.
- The Republican narrative has led to the extraordinary comment from a state representative in Alaska that children dying of child abuse would save the state money in social services.
- The Republican narrative has also been used to conceal a report that virtually all claims of fraud against the 2020 Arizona election were unfounded.
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is giving Tucker Carlson of Fox News exclusive access to 44,000 hours of video taken within the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, and raising funds off the release.
Published February 23, 2023
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