Trump in the GOP's Big Lie 2.0. Their plan is shut down America this fall.

Get ready. Donald Trump has made good use of the propaganda technique known as the Big Lie 1.0, famously claiming that the 20-20 election was stolen from him.

And now he's preparing to use Big Lie 2.0 to shut down our government this fall,

believing it'll hurt the Biden administration and thus the Harris Wall's campaign.

That second weapon, this Big Lie 2.0, is the false allegation of widespread voter fraud in America.

He intends to try to use it to bring the Biden administration to its knees in the next few weeks

and as a bonus if it works he gets to prevent millions of

people particularly minorities and women from voting. Republicans have been

using this lie to attack the heart of our democracy right out in the open ever since the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.

The year they responded by rolling out Operation Eagle Eye, yelling about non-existent voter fraud,

and using it as an excuse to intimidate

minority voters in the Goldwater Johnson race. It's a phrase they essentially

invented, although it was occasionally used by the Confederacy during its later years

when they tried to suppress poor white voters who opposed that oligarchy.

Former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Wrenquist's Arizona arm of Operation Eagle Eye

was one of dozens of such formal and informal Republican voter suppression operations

that exploded across the United States that year.

As the New York Times noted on October 30th, 1964, quote,

Republican officials have begun a massive campaign to prevent, quote,

voter fraud in the election next

Tuesday a move that has caused Democrats to cry fraud. The Republican plan

Operation Eagleize designed according to party officials to prevent Democrats from stealing

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