Jen Psaki claims GOP is ‘trying to recruit Muslim-Americans’ against transgender people
Heather Hamilton
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Jen Psaki claimed the Republican Party is returning to an old strategy of pitting minority groups against one another.
“I’ve been noticing the reemergence of a very old GOP playbook,” Psaki said, suggesting former President Richard Nixon encouraged the fear of black people in order to draw the votes of white people. “And it worked by pitting one group of Americans against another, the GOP successfully managed to split off southern whites from the Democratic Party.”
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During her Sunday show Inside with Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary said she believes the Republican Party is now “trying to recruit Muslim-Americans, a community that makes up less than 2% of the U.S. population, against another tiny, marginalized group of Americans — transgender people.”
Psaki suggested the strategy was hypocritical, pointing back to concerns following the Sept. 11 attacks.
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“Ten years ago, standing against Sharia law was the key GOP litmus test,” Psaki noted. “Now that litmus test seems to be held fervently to oppose transgender people.”
“This is the same old GOP playbook,” she reiterated, calling it “another cynical ploy to tear at the fabric of our society and damage the idea that out of many, we are one — all because they want so desperately to regain the White House.”