Jiu-Jitsu Red to Blue: Crushing MAGA Under The Weight of Their Own Arguments

Host Tish Durkin measures today’s Republican party by its own yardsticks. Largely leaving aside such hot topics as January 6, the 2020 “stop the steal” debacle, and Black Lives Matter, Jiujitsu Red to Blue challenges the way in which the GOP is widely and perennially trusted on other major issues. The GOP successfully touts itself as tough on crime; strong on the economy; laser-focused on common-sense, back-to-basics education, and true to the founding values of our nation. Jiujitsu Red to Blue begs to differ.)

It’s for you! Especially if you’re a nice, normal person who usually tunes out of politics and who pretty much thinks both parties have lost their minds. Host Tish Durkin totally understands why you feel that way, but will try to talk you out of it! Republicans and Independents are most welcome – provided you are open to hearing why your ’22 midterm vote should go to big-D Democrats as the one and only way to save small-d democracy.

In Jiu-Jitsu Red to Blue, recovering political journalist Tish Durkin flips the current, Trumped-up GOP right back on its boasts about itself, evaluating one Republican claim to fame per episode.

As the all-important, democracy-determining midterm elections approach, two facts are widely accepted by the U.S. political class: one, most Americans will vote on crime and the economy; and two, this is great news for Republicans, who have successfully sold themselves as strong on both issues and a great many more: national security; fiscal responsibility; good old-fashioned three-R’s-not-LGBTQ-or-CRT education; our proud, traditional American heritage. In Jiu-Jitsu Red to Blue, recovering political journalist Tish Durkin flips the current, Trumped-up GOP right back on its boasts about itself, evaluating one Republican claim to fame per episode. Leaving aside such (urgent) matters as the insurrection of January 6, the mounting ravages of climate change, and the basic proposition that Black Lives Matter, Jiujitsu Red to Blue takes a breath and a step back and asks: Is this GOP really tough on crime? Good for the economy? Notably proficient at non-sex education? As devoted to the legacies of our founding fathers as they are to the statues of our founding fathers? Tune in and hear all the fascinating, fact-based ways in which the answers turn out to be…no. And for the bonus question that will run all throughout: do the Democrats have a snowball’s chance in hell of prevailing this November? If they start hitting the GOP on all the strong suits that are actually weak spots: Yes.