Texas Republicans have a new campaign strategy -- and a surprisingly retro boogeyman

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John Cornyn, Ken Paxton and other GOP candidates for U.S. Senate and state office are stoking Islamophobia.

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https://www.ms.now/opinion/texas-republican-primary-radical-islam-islamophobia

In the run-up to the Texas primaries, the issue taking center stage in the Lone Star State is not affordability, inflation or the border. It’s religion. Specifically, Islam.

What began as a crowded field of Republican hopefuls jockeying for attention has devolved into a campaign of bigotry.

This isn’t fringe language. It’s now part of the mainstream GOP campaigning strategy.

“The Muslim community is the boogeyman for this cycle,” Texas GOP consultant Vinny Minchillo told Politico with disturbing candor. “One hundred percent this message works — there’s no question about it.”

I caught up on a good number of Jeopardy episodes and was getting irked at the number of ads attacking Muslims. Cornyn is desperate but the other candidates are also running these ads.