TRAILER FOR JIU-JITSU RED TO BLUE: CRUSHING THE GOP UNDER THE WEIGHT OF ITS OWN ARGUMENTS
In Jiu-Jitsu Red to Blue, recovering political journalist Tish Durkin flips the current, Trumped-up GOP right back on its boasts about itself, evaluating one Republican claim to fame per episode.
As the all-important, democracy-determining midterm elections approach, two facts are widely accepted by the U.S. political class: one, most Americans will vote on crime and the economy; and two, this is great news for Republicans, who have successfully sold themselves as strong on both issues and a great many more: national security; fiscal responsibility; good old-fashioned three-R’s-not-LGBTQ-or-CRT education; our proud, traditional American heritage. In Jiu-Jitsu Red to Blue, recovering political journalist Tish Durkin flips the current, Trumped-up GOP right back on its boasts about itself, evaluating one Republican claim to fame per episode. Leaving aside such (urgent) matters as the insurrection of January 6, the mounting ravages of climate change, and the basic proposition that Black Lives Matter, Jiujitsu Red to Blue takes a breath and a step back and asks: Is this GOP really tough on crime? Good for the economy? Notably proficient at non-sex education? As devoted to the legacies of our founding fathers as they are to the statues of our founding fathers? Tune in and hear all the fascinating, fact-based ways in which the answers turn out to be…no. And for the bonus question that will run all throughout: do the Democrats have a snowball’s chance in hell of prevailing this November? If they start hitting the GOP on all the strong suits that are actually weak spots: Yes.
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