“They’ve laid the groundwork for #InfluenceCampaigns on trending #election-related topics & begun to activate these campaigns in an apparent effort to stir up controversy or sway voters — especially in swing states,” Clint Watts, the #ThreatCenter’s general manager, wrote in a blog accompanying the report. Since March, another #Iran-linked group has been posting in the guise of political & social activists & could escalate to #intimidation & #incitement, he warned.

#ElectionInterference#USpol

"Trump is temperamentally incapable of responding to the prospect of defeat by broadening his appeal, and Republicans are structurally incapable of deposing Trump as a chastened peace offering to the country. They will see only one option, and it will be to intimidate and demoralize the anti-Trump movement all over again."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump#Republicans #violence #intimidation
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https://www.offmessage.net/p/republicans-are-about-to-become-desperate-d18

"What would a decadent party in a bind like this do to stave off destruction? What wouldn’t they do? GOP judges will likely step in where they can to help Republicans tilt the playing field of the election. Their propaganda apparatus will run hotter than ever to divide the opposition. Their rabid supporters will become yet more receptive to calls for political violence."

#Trump#Republicans #violence #intimidation
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