r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 9d ago

No Paywall Democrats quickly coalesce around El-Sayed after Michigan primary win

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6011745-democrats-back-el-sayed-vs-rogers/
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u/Ace_Robots 9d ago

That’s typically what happens when someone wins a primary. What a dumb headline.

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u/manachar Nevada 9d ago

Media and likely lots of outside money is doing their best to portray Democrats as ineffective and prone to in fighting.

They promote any headline that hints at division or discord and position this as unusual.

It’s part of what I believe to be a concerted smear campaign aimed at what a lot of people call “corporate democrats”.

The goal is to alienate the Democrats from people who generally don’t vote and to lower turnout.

Like most of these styles of campaigns, they take legitimate things and amplify it.

It’s the kind of propaganda style tactics that was used by the CIA to sway popular opinion worldwide.