The GOP’s Attacks on James Talarico Are Straight Out of the Incel Handbook
On Tuesday, with Donald Trump’s endorsement and the backing of the MAGA faithful, scandal-ridden Texas attorney general Ken Paxton defeated incumbent US senator John Cornyn in a run-off primary to claim the Republican nomination for that seat.
He then quickly set about painting his general election opponent, Democratic Texas state representative James Talarico, as insufficiently masculine.
“My opponent is the most extreme radical that Democrats have ever nominated,” Paxton said in his victory speech. “He's even running a vegan campaign, whatever that is. He goes by a few names that you may all have heard of. Some people know him as Tofu Talarico. Some people call him Six-Gender Jimmy. I've even heard some people call him James Talafreako. And others refer to him simply as Low-T Talarico.”
The spattering of derogatory nicknames was a not entirely successful Trumpian flourish. (The Talarico campaign, already a fundraising juggernaut, started selling “I’m...
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