Whiplash Nation: The GOP Power-Grab & Ruthless Sprint to Outlaw Everyone They Fear
- Blue State Threads
- Jun 18
- 2 min read
The Supreme Court’s green light for Tennessee’s trans-youth health ban was still warm when Texas Republicans filed a carbon-copy bill, bragging they wrote it over lunch. On the same day, Louisiana passed a law forcing every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments by January. Yesterday it was Tennessee, today it is Texas and Louisiana, tomorrow it could be your ZIP code. That rapid-fire chaos is the strategy, and we have 24 hours to slam the brakes.
The playbook: whiplash on purpose
Flood the outrage cycle. Culture-war bombs drop back-to-back so organizers sprint between fires.
Normalize the shocking. Yesterday’s outrage becomes today’s shrug, a Bible-poster mandate feels “moderate” next to outlawing an entire identity.
Blame courts, then capture them. Victories are praised as the rule of law, defeats are blamed on “activist judges,” and then the bench is packed with Leonard Leo loyalists.
Why the center keeps yawning
Cable panels frame this as partisan tennis, serve and volley. For real people—a trans teen forced off HRT, a queer kid staring at a state-sanctioned Bible verse—the ball never comes back. Only policy shrapnel lands. Media both-sides chatter dulls urgency, exhausted voters scroll past until the next headline detonates.
How we slam the brakes
Slow the speed. Fund groups that handle rapid-response and long-game litigation, like ACLU, Lambda Legal, and Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Own the story. Refuse to let pundits mash crises into generic “culture clashes.” Name each assault and its sponsors.
Flip statehouses. These bans are born in committee rooms, not in D.C. Vote them out, and the contagion dies fast.
Get your No Kings gear before your next protest to tell this dictator and all of his cronies to f*ck all the way off.
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