Kurt Bardella & Joe Walsh: The Squad & MAGA

Source:Kurt Bardella talking about The Squad's bad night.

"What Everyone Is Getting Wrong About Jamaal Bowman's Loss in NY-16" 

From Kurt Bardella

"Both parties have extremes. And both parties have members who go too far. But there's a big, big, big difference in what "going too far" means in the Democratic Party and what it means in the Republican Party." 

Source:White Flag With Joe Walsh talking about MAGA & The Squad.

From White Flag With Joe Walsh

I disagree a little bit with Joe Walsh on one point. Just look at Utah where John Curtis a Mitt Romney backed, center-right, Republican, defeated the Donald Trump backed MAGA candidate. And might just be 1 exception to a much larger rule. But I take his broader point. 

I think the real difference between the so-called Squad in the Democratic Party and MAGA in the Republican Party, is the Squad really represents the Green Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, perhaps even Communist USA wing of the Democratic Party. But that's at most maybe 10-15% of the entire Democratic Party right now. Out of 213 House Democrats, the Squad only has 9 members.

The mainstream left-wing of the Democratic Party, is mostly represented by the so-called Congressional Progressive Caucus, who are Democratic Socialists ideologically, mostly representing heavily, left-wing, Democratic seats in the House of Representatives. Who ideologically aren't that much different from the Squad, if they had the power to anything that they wanted. But who are more likely to vote with Hakeem Jeffries and the House Democratic Leadership, support the Democratic President, when they need the CPC's votes on major legislation. And the CPC has around 80 seats, maybe more in the House alone, maybe a few in the Senate as well. 

But then you go over to the fringe of the far-right, not just in the Republican Party, but in America as well and MAGA is 35-40% of the Republican Party. And we're talking about people who not only oppose free trade and immigration, at least non-Northern European immigration, but multiculturalism as a whole, who thinks the rule of law doesn't apply to them, elections don't matter when they lose, cops are criminals when they arrest their members, etc. I mean MAGA is what you see at Neo-Nazi rallies, perhaps even Ku Klux Klan rallies. At least the militant win of this far-right movement. 

The other difference between MAGA and the Squad: you run a far-left, whacked-out, politician or candidate, in a mainstream Democratic district, which is what Representative Jamaal Bowman's district is, half of it, or more, is white-collar Westchester, New York, which also has a large Jewish population, you are not going to lose the general election, because you'll get primaried and lose the primary to a mainstream Democrat instead. Unlike with the MAGA members in the House who routinely win their primaries and get reelected in the fall. 

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