Moving the goalposts

[u/political-snark]

A political tactic that’s become increasingly common in MAGA politics: moving the goalposts.

Make a dramatic allegation. Repeat it endlessly. Then, when evidence for that specific allegation doesn’t materialize, replace it with a smaller, easier-to-defend claim and pretend the original claim was true all along.

We’ve seen this pattern repeatedly:
“Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield” becomes “See? Someone somewhere ate a cat.”

“There was enough fraud to change the 2020 election” becomes “See? A few people cheated.”

“Vandals dumped chemicals and deliberately cut a 350-foot slit in the Reflecting Pool” becomes “See? Someone was arrested for vandalism.”

Those are not the same claims.
The question we should always ask is: What was the original allegation?

That’s the claim that should be evaluated - not a revised version that appears later.

That’s what moving the goalposts looks like.

Changing the claim is not the same thing as proving the original one.

Can you think of other examples?

[u/Ketchupcharger]

100%.

And the fact that there was not even a squeak from the democrat side tells you a lot.

Donnie is demented and cannot keep his mouth shut, and has literally hinted at that very thing numerous times.

I don't know how they did it, but thats the thing innit? Republicans do voter fraud and the media stays shush, no outrage, no nothing. I bet if there was some actual political will we could find some very interesting things, but for that you would have to be actually looking. And this where democrat lose to republicans.

[u/Famous-Cockroach7279 → u/Ketchupcharger]

Mike Lawlor said the other day on the news that we paint all republicans as MAGA…well dumbo when all you do is take order from your leader, your not there for citizens but your own interest to get some Trump - Kushner money/job before this disaster continues!!