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Oops! Mitch McConnell Said Out Loud What the GOP Preaches

Republicans believe brown skinned citizens are not ‘REAL’ Americans

Libby Winkler
2 min readJan 23, 2022
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As Mitch scrambles to walk back his statement, we are all standing slack jawed. Historically, Republicans have suffered public relations battles to assure folks of color they are not the party of racists.

Recently, Mitch McConnell dealt a blow to these efforts resulting in excessive white washing and ‘well he didn’t mean that’ statements.

A Broad View

Republicans like to remind they are the party of Lincoln.

Touting their historical aligning with the party of Lincoln, Republicans repeated remind voters of this fact. The expectation is that voters have amnesia and disregard every de facto platform of the party.

Their party’s leader, the Don himself, fires up the base by calling all of those crossing borders as dirty, rapists, drug dealers, and stupid. His much-touted wall construction reached nearly orgasmic level excitement as his base…

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Libby Winkler
Libby Winkler

Written by Libby Winkler

Freelance writer who loves exploring the messiness of humanity, while poking around in nooks of life and shining light on all the things that make us complex..

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