Whether it's Republicans lying about the LA mayor election, or lying about screwworm, or using AI to lie about James Talarico, the Democratic instinct is to correct the record, condemn the attack and move on. It should be to weave a story about the opposition's putrid, morally corrosive dishonesty.
Even when their smears aren't helpful to them in the short run, they harm Democrats in the long run. Here's a prescription for deterrence.
it's equally wrong to conflate "competition" or "markets" with "every anti-labor thing any person who clothed themselves in the language of economics or competition [current or past versions], however tendentiously or opportunistically, ever said"
Use of the language of competition by key US legal opponents of labor unions in the early 20c was utterly superficial and opportunistic, while the real logic was a version of property & social/intrafirm hierarchy that jurists themselves *counterposed* to competition! They should be called on that
