The closer it gets to the midterm elections in November, the more desperation and derangement we are seeing from Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and their propaganda platform Fox News. They appear to recognize the depth of their troubles, but don’t have any idea how to fix them.

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It would never occur to them that they should change their campaign strategy from harping on 1950s “red scare” communist rhetoric and parroting Trump’s pathetic trivialities like renaming Lake Ontario, to focus more on reducing the cost of living and ending the war in Iran. And from Trump’s perspective, the problem lies anywhere but with him.

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On Friday morning Fox News sought to cover a voting rights rally in Washington, D.C. that was also honoring the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington led by Martin Luther King. The rally featured notable advocates of civil liberties including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rev. Al Sharpton. But Fox’s coverage had a typically biased slant that highlighted their obsession with a fringe left-wing podcaster…

FOX NEWS: “One prominent voice on the far left is noticeably absent. We’ll talk to former RNC [Republican National Committee] chair Ronna McDaniel about Hasan Piker and his rhetoric forming a deepening Democratic rift into the open.”

First of all, Piker is not a Democrat. He’s not even a Democratic Socialist. He may have a voice as an Internet influencer/troll, but he doesn’t speak for the Democratic Party or its candidates or office holders. So the differences that he has with Democrats are not evidence of any “rift” within the Party.

What’s more, while some Democrats have progressive positions on some issues, they are positions that are broadly popular. They include Medicare for All, making the rich pay their fair share of taxes, standing up for Constitutional law and order, judicial reform, and a national security agenda that affirms our relations with our international allies without leading reckless and illegal wars.

Secondly, If Piker was “noticeably absent” from the D.C. rally it’s because he wasn’t invited. The assumption by Fox News and McDaniel that he should have been present is an invention of their own biases. This is a delusional viewpoint that is threaded throughout Fox’s coverage.

The day before this segment Fox News hosted right-wing hack, Hugh Hewitt, who made many of the same asinine assumptions about Piker. He even called for Democrats to renounce him. Which they have no obligation to do since he isn’t affiliated with them.

Between now and November, we can expect Fox News and the GOP to push more of this nonsense. But asking Democrats to renounce Piker, with whom they are unaffiliated, would be like asking Trump and the GOP to renounce the racist, violent, neo-fascist Proud Boys. Oh wait… They actually are Republicans and Trump supporters.

What is noticeably absent from Fox News is their acknowledgement that Democrats have already renounced Piker. Even though Fox actually included video of it in their own report. And candidates across the Democratic spectrum – from progressive Abdul El-Sayed in Minnesota to moderate David Jolly in Florida – have explicitly distanced themselves from Piker.

So maybe Fox News should tend to their own party’s problems before setting up lame red herring arguments to attack Democrats.

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