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Rep. Dan Crenshaw says culture of misinformation fueled his primary loss: “The truth didn’t matter” (www.texastribune.org)
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The fourth-term congressman, who lost decisively to state Rep. Steve Toth, said baseless attacks about his alleged insider trading and gun stances fueled the upset.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw blamed unfounded attacks and a culture of misinformation for his primary loss to state Rep. Steve Toth, saying in an interview that the “power of clickbait” proved too much to overcome.

Crenshaw, a fourth-term congressman from Atascosita, lost to Toth, one of the most conservative members of the Texas Legislature, by a decisive 15-point margin, according to unofficial returns.

His district, which includes Kingwood, Lake Houston and The Woodlands, is split between Harris County and Montgomery County, a hotbed of conservative activism where Attorney General Ken Paxton received twice as many votes as incumbent John Cornyn in the Senate Republican primary.

Crenshaw acknowledged that the “telling the truth thing” is viewed as “a real crime” among some voters. But he heaped most of the blame for his loss on what he said were baseless attacks over his alleged insider trading and stance on red flag laws — leaving Crenshaw, in his eyes, to fend off talking points that twisted the truth.

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

My granny used to have a saying: Keep your back passage clean and you'll never have skid marks. Or actually, I think it went more like: You reap what you sow. Yeah, that one.

Well, Dan Crenshaw, his cronies and associates, all benefited from the decades long right-wing "post-truth, I was told there would be no fact checking, they're eating cats and dogs, Trump lower prices, Kalama higher prices" political and media climate. So fuck them and their feelings if they get burned a bit by the heat. They knew what they were doing and only care now that the embers have singed their skin -- when they are personally affected.

So basically, I'm here to to bitch about them and give my sympathies, expect I'm all out of sympathy.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 24 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, so now a "culture of misinformation" is suddenly a problem.

Also, "telling the truth thing" is spoken like a person who've heard of buttered snails once and only tried it once too.

[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

"I didn't realize the leopards would eat my own face."

[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

leaving Crenshaw, in his eyes, to fend off talking points that twisted the truth.

Missed opportunity

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The primary system that we have in place encourages extremism. Obviously mostly Republicans vote in Republican primaries. That means candidates with widespread appeal, rather than targeted conservative appeal, are less likely to be chosen.

And fewer people vote in primaries, in general.

But if there are fewer voting, who's more likely to make the effort to vote in primaries? People with strong views or people with tepid views?

That's why our primary system favors extremism. And also one of the reasons I always suggest the idea of mandatory voting.

[–] shutz@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

But then, why doesn't that work to push the Democrats further left?

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it does, but if the effect is less for Democrats, it's probably related to fundraising or strategic voting.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Have you tried not looking like a Saturday morning cartoon villain?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

That sounds like libel if you can prove injury.