Now Republicans Are the Out-of-Touch Party
Now Republicans Are the Out-of-Touch Party Republicans spent years calling Democrats out of touch. This fall, they're running against a socialist caricature while voters ask about prices. John W. McCarthy Oct 23 ∙ Guest post In Kansas, a Republican ad puts Adam Hamilton , a United Methodist pastor running for Senate, in front of footage of dancing drag queens and says he “preaches the gospel of woke.” The quote the ad attributes to Hamilton about gender doesn’t exist. It was stitched together from separate sentences in a 2021 podcast. In Iowa, Rep. Ashley Hinson’s first ad after her primary paired operating-room footage with the claim that Democrat Josh Turek supports “sex changes for kids.” PolitiFact rated it False. And in seven Senate battlegrounds, the National Republican Senatorial Committee is airing an ad warning that when it comes to socialism, the enemy “isn’t just at the gate; they’re in the house.” With less than two weeks to go, Democrats are talking about grocery bi...