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Supplementary: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/21/texas-gop-slogan-storm/ #MetaphorStormWeAreTheStorm And
#NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesMatthewRosenberg "In a statement posted on its website Friday after the article's publication, the state party said that the slogan came from a favorite poem of the party's new chairman, Allen West, and that the line had biblical roots.
It is 'one of Chairman West's favorite quotes to use in speeches,' the party said. 'He and the entire Texas G.O.P. will not be bullied by partisan leftists in the media into ceding powerful phrases with biblical roots -- taken from Psalm 29 -- to internet conspiracy groups.'
Psalm 29 includes a line about thunder but not the word 'storm.' The poem includes the line 'I Am the Storm.' Its origins are unclear; it appeared on an Instagram post in 2018 by Tom Brady, then the New England Patriots quarterback, and can be found on a website about scripture and culture.
Neither party officials nor Mr. West responded to a question on Saturday about whether they believed that the use of the slogan could be taken by QAnon supporters as a signal of support from Texas Republicans. Instead, Mr. West said that questioning how the party came to use the slogan was 'a pure example of the leftist embrace of racism.'
'It's offensive and condescending that white, liberal, progressive socialists would expect me to respond to their demand to know how long I have said something,' he said in a written statement released on Saturday in response to The Times. 'It is obvious that as a strong, conservative Black man, I am not allowed to think or speak'" (22 August 2020).
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/us/politics/qanon-gop-we-are-the-storm.html
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