How will the propaganda pivot?

Rupert Murdoch. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Votes are still being counted for 23 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Odds are, though, that Republicans are going to own the entire government.

Nice as that is for the Republican elite, it also creates a propaganda problem: Whom do they blame for all the ugly things they intend to do? To say that those mean old Democrats made them do it will be a hard sell with Democrats out of power, even to people who will believe just about anything as long as Trump says it.

If they really deport 20 million immigrants, can 20 million Trump voters be found to work in the slaughterhouses and fields and sweat shops for immigrant wages? I can’t wait to see how Republicans handle that.

Will Trump really impose 60 percent tariffs on Chinese imports? Can Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk come up with lies clever enough to convince Trump voters that it was mean old Democrats who caused prices to go up 40 percent at Walmart? I can’t wait to see how Republicans handle that.

As Heather Cox Richardson reported in her newsletter this morning: “One of the old justifications for tariffs was that they would bring factories home, but when the $3 billion shoe company Steve Madden announced yesterday it would reduce its imports from China by half to avoid Trump-promised tariffs, it said it will shift production not to the U.S., but to Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil.”

I also can’t wait to see how Republicans come up with propaganda good enough to blame mean old Democrats for what Republican elites plan to do to Obamacare, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Maybe Elon Musk can call Vladimir Putin and get some fresh ideas.

Trump promised that a conservative white-people paradise will arise from the ashes of a crime-ridden liberal hellhole with too many dark-skinned people.

You’ve got to show some results, Mr. Murdoch. America’s dogs are tired of being eaten.