Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is taking heat for her scary, robot-wife response to President Biden’s State of the Union address.
To be fair to Sen. Britt, the job of delivering the response is always tough. These days all speakers loyal to former President Trump are stretching the facts to imitate his dark and bloody visions of a failing nation — what he famously described as “American carnage.”
Yes, Britt failed as a messenger by telling a factually wrong story of a chilling gang rape. But the bigger problem is the message.
The number one scare tactic from the Trump camp is an appeal to hatred of immigrants as killers and rapists “poisoning the blood of our country,” to use Trump’s own words. He labels it an “invasion” of immigrants of color arriving “from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”
Trump is right that the U.S. has a troubled, chaotic immigration system. But Trump stopped Congressional Republicans from approving funding to solve the problem.
Also, Trump never mentions that the U.S. is a nation of immigrants. And the data show that the newest arrivals are propelling our economic growth.
The second most reliable theme from Trump messengers is hatred of gays, especially any mention of gays in libraries and schoolbooks.
One Trump-endorsed candidate has called gay and transgender people “filth,” “maggots” and “flies” and........