When did the "Big Lie" become the official strategy for the Republican Party?

[kentuck]

In my opinion, it began when Kevin McCarthy made his sojourn down to Mar-a-Lago, about a week after the attack upon our Capitol. When he returned, he had completely changed his tune from a week earlier. He no longer wanted to talk about how he pleaded with Donald Trump for help as the entire House was being hunted down, as the Capitol police were being assaulted. From that moment forward, he did not want to talk about it and he did not want anyone in his caucus to talk about it.

In my opinion, Trump requested that McCarthy come down to Mar-a-Lago. He wanted to discuss what the message should be going forward. The one issue that he believed was verboten for the Party was any talk about an insurrection or attack upon our Capitol. That was an issue they could not win.

They could spin and survive the Big Lie but they could not spin the attack upon our democracy.

The Republicans in the House, except for a couple of exceptions, bought into the new strategy, hook, line, and sinker.

Liz Cheney would not shut up about the attack upon our Capitol and thought there should be a Commission to determine all the facts. In my opinion, that is why they are going to vote her out of the gang this Wednesday.

The big mistake was made when McCarthy made the trip to Mar-a-Lago.

[JoeOtterbein]

1. I'm thinking Trump did not have any...

...dirt, provided by Putin, on Liz.

[SoonerPride]

2. When trump mocked McCain for being captured

And they didn’t boo him out of the race.

They have been all in on any crazy ass shit and lie that motherfucker tells.

The sooner he is dead the better off the entire planet will be.

He is a threat to life itself.

[Ace Rothstein]

3. When it became a cult instead of a political party.

[dweller]

4. So many Big Lies

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[kentuck]

5. Yes, he believes he can spin the Big Lie...

But, you notice, he does not try to spin the attack upon our Capitol. They must be viewed thru separate lenses.

[dweller]

8. That's not spin

That’s a decree ... Emperor Orange has spoken !


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[kentuck]

9. Yes, to his supporters...

...everything else is "fake news". If it does not come out of the mouth of Donald Trump, it cannot be believed.

[Hippo_The_Pointer]

15. Deflect and smear

People have allowed him to set the narrative. To do that he has two go to strategies: he deflects and he smears. In fact he is "King Smear" a Shakespearean tragic character with only those two tools at his disposal (plus a willingness to do what ever it takes to get what he wants). As he schemes his way forward others either jump on his coat tails or play him like a fiddle. If only Shakespeare were here to give us some clever language that would eloquently, but succinctly expose the little man we know him to be. The clever quip that would stick and smear the man we have come to know as King Smear - The Hippo

[kentuck]

17. Welcome!

If only Shakespeare were here? It would make a worthy play for human consumption.

[Hippo_The_Pointer]

19. Bigly

Bigly are his boasts so that they may hide his sins. Bigly are his smears to leave you in the bin

[kentuck]

20. Steal once and steal no more...

...so make sure you steal enough to comfort you the first time. Just following the Good Book.

[Iggo]

6. November 4th.

[abqtommy]

7. The lies started with Nixon. Remember when he said "I am not a crook"? Nixon's crew

gave us the word "ratfucking" and now the reTHUG Fascist Insurrectionist Cultists have
made every attempt to normalize their lies and criminal behavior. We need to push
back on them. Bigly.

[GoCubsGo]

25. Yep. It has been their M.O. for at least the last 50 years. nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. 1980?

[kentuck]

13. "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia"...

It goes back to Joe McCarthy. It goes back to the days of Al Smith. It goes back to Calvin Coolidge, Warren Harding. It has been progressing to this day since its beginning in 1860. It is practiced in the art of deception.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. +1

[Bev54]

11. In 2018 in an airplane hangar

[Pobeka]

12. I think Reagan really institutionalized it as a core value for winning elections.

The rest has just been the proverbial slippery slope to see how incredibly low they could go with the lies.

[doc03]

16. It started with the 2016 election with Trump saying if he didn't win

the election was fixed. I think if Clinton would have won the EC we would have had a Jan 6th event in 2017.

[Progressive Jones]

18. When they saw how well it works on the dummies. nt

[Ligyron]

23. This

[RegularJam]

21. It began during Donald's first primary run.

He was calling the Republican primary rigged. He has called each election he has been a part of as rigged.

[Beringia]

22. They decided to Go Big or else they would be Gone. I think they have run out of ideas.

[GoCubsGo]

24. Probably some time in the 1960s.

They have been spinning and lying at least since they went along with Nixon and his lies about getting us out of Vietnam, and whatever other lies he told to get people to vote for him. It's all the same lying and race-baiting it has been for the past 50 years, at least. "The Big Lie" is really no different than what they've been doing all along.

[JHB]

26. 1992

When they portrayed the "pro-business", ok-with-the-death-penalty centrist governor of a "right to work" state as draft-dogin' dope-smokin' citizenship-renouncin' radical leftist Hippy Bill with his wife Harpy From Hell Hillary.

Otherwise you'll have to specify which Big Lie.