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GOP launches racial attacks in midterms homestretch

The Beat with Ari Melber

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Is There a Difference Between Scrutinizing and Echoing?

Michael Wolraich: Republicans have an understanding that they can just completely take over the discourse as in this show right now, what we're doing. "There's a really terrifying feedback loop that's happening right now," he says. The trick is to make it clear that this is unacceptable while at the same time not allowing it to drown out the really important messages that our politicians are trying to put forth? Right. And MAGA is, by its very nature, a permission structure. So increasingly, MAGA politicians are giving their supporters the license to say and act in ever more outrageous ways"

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