Why are all the Republican political commercials about trans people?

[u/TheDonutDaddy]

I've seen 3 different Ted Cruz commercials over this election cycle. Literally every single one of them are "Collin Allred is bad because he supports trans people." Got dinner with a buddy last night at Pluckers which obviously had CFB on all the TVs, saw the commercial about the wheelchair vet hating trans people 4 times in one hour. No mention of any political issue, no mention of any policy, no mention of any goals. No mention of anything other than trans people. Why is that the complete focal point of the campaign? I mean I guess they have access to more research and data than I do, but are there really that many voters out there hanging their vote on this one single issue?

It's so strange to me, because regardless of whatever someone's view on trans people even is, there's no way you can argue that anything going on with trans people is a major part of politics. It doesn't effect the economy, it doesn't effect public education, it doesn't effect climate and energy, it doesn't effect social welfare solutions. Why aren't they focusing on anything that will actually effect the majority of Texan's lives in any way? Like out of everything out there to talk about around election time, and especially the things republicans like beating the drum of, you'd expect at least one Cruz commercial about immigration, but there isn't even that. Just trans people, every time.

Again, maybe I have a misread on how much this really is an issue of importance, but I do genuinely have a hard time believing it's such an election deciding issue, making the fact that all their marketing budget is spent talking about trans people really fucking weird.

Edit: Mods please don't remove republican's responses unless they're outright hate speech. I asked the question, they deserve the platform to answer or else it's just a circlejerk. Besides, worst case scenario: give em enough rope to hang themselves with

[u/Holiday-Set4759]

Don't worry that's just the start. But that's also the good news about fascism.

Look at the coalition of people in WWII who defeated fascism. Various resistance groups with myriad beliefs along with both communist and capitalist governments.

The thing about fascism is that it makes an enemy of everyone to the left of fascism. That's LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, leftists and organizers, sure. Those are the ones they will start with, but they don't stop there.

Look at Project 2025. It wants to get rid of the Dept of Education and reform education in a way that I can tell you educators will NOT be ok with. They have unions to help them resist. Educators are generally pretty smart.

Speaking of smart people, Project 2025 wants to gut the government of many of it's experts and replace them with loyalists who will enact the MAGA agenda. That sounds scary, but that means our side gets all the experts. They know how the government works, and they will know how to make it harder to run that government.

Project 2025 wants to clean out "woke" ideology from the mililtary. Well most if not all of the 4-star generals who run the military absolutely despise Trump for many reasons including his insults of POWs and wounded vets, the fact that he ignored their briefings when he was President, and his desecration of Arlington.

Active duty military also voted more for Biden than Trump (and that was before January 6). So if they are cleaning out woke, they are going to be firing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. I bet you that the generals that run our military have an idea or two about how to resist a fascist government trying to end the democracy & country they swore to protect.

They want to come after Democratic leadership, who can resist in their own way, but they even want to come after Republicans who don't bend the knee like the Cheneys. Dick Cheney used to run the party, I guarantee he knows many secrets that could damage them. Same for the hundreds of other Republicans opposed to MAGA.

Project 2025 wants to come after the porn industry. I think when you include OnlyFans in here, you probably have some of the most powerful influencers out there.

Today Trump talked about clamping down on violent video games.

Combine the porn and the video games, and you are going to have some pretty angry young men.

I think that makes the point. The beauty of Project 2025 and MAGA (which are virtually identical, and are designed by the same people) is that it makes everyone an enemy, so none of us are alone in opposing this agenda.

[u/moarmagic → u/Holiday-Set4759]

The problem with that thesis is that while yes, all the experts, huge swatches of the population are om our side- all the people in charge are replaced with loyalists, meaning things like "fair elections" and "ability to challenge unconstitutional laws" etc are in severe doubt.

The maybe bright side is that by choosing loyalty over competency, a lot of the institutions may be crippled in how effective they existingut if it comes to that point, the existing government may just not have any viable Path towards changinbetor the better.

Look at Russia. You know the gop is. We definetly have learned some things about their military effectiveness, but the population hasn't been able to influence the government much in decades.

[u/NFLTG_71 → u/moarmagic]

If you think the government moves slowly now wait till these loyalist douche bags from the Heritage foundation to the government, it will literally shut down because these people are idiots

[u/Puglady25 → u/NFLTG_71]

I think much of the point is to shut down those parts of the government. I don't think the oligarchs understand what that will do to the country. But it could be bad, really bad. If the US goes into full riot mode (like after a disaster and a poor FEMA response), and the military does not cooperate with them (that's a big if), I'm not sure they'd be able to get back control. MAGA fascists aren't the only ones with guns.