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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP anti-socialism 'Freedom Squad'
GOP anti-socialism Freedom Squad forms with Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar
...Two years after New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a group of left-leaning lawmakers gave themselves that name, a group of incoming Republican members of Congress are trying to turn Ocasio-Cortezs messaging on its head by calling themselves The Freedom Squad, with the goal of pushing back anything they perceive as being too far left in Congress.
Carlos Gimenez, the former Miami-Dade County mayor, and Maria Elvira Salazar, a former TV journalist, are part of the group. All of the members left or have family members who left Cuba and Soviet Union-controlled Ukraine. The group, though informal, is an outgrowth of the repeated attacks during the 2020 elections by Republicans calling Democrats socialists, a line that wasnt true in most cases but gained traction in places like Miami....
But Gimenez, Malliotakis and Salazar said House Republicans for at least the next two years will be united in opposing the sort of policies favored by Ocasio-Cortez, and that Democrats smallest House majority in decades will give them little wiggle room to pursue left-leaning policies if moderates oppose them.
One of the things that ginned me up to run was doing battle with [Ocasio-Cortez], Gimenez said. I want to do battle with them. I want to fight them in the arena of ideas. I think their ideas and where they want to take this country is completely wrong. Im not here to battle every Democrat. I am here to battle [The Squad]. I will do that with my last breath.
...Two years after New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a group of left-leaning lawmakers gave themselves that name, a group of incoming Republican members of Congress are trying to turn Ocasio-Cortezs messaging on its head by calling themselves The Freedom Squad, with the goal of pushing back anything they perceive as being too far left in Congress.
Carlos Gimenez, the former Miami-Dade County mayor, and Maria Elvira Salazar, a former TV journalist, are part of the group. All of the members left or have family members who left Cuba and Soviet Union-controlled Ukraine. The group, though informal, is an outgrowth of the repeated attacks during the 2020 elections by Republicans calling Democrats socialists, a line that wasnt true in most cases but gained traction in places like Miami....
But Gimenez, Malliotakis and Salazar said House Republicans for at least the next two years will be united in opposing the sort of policies favored by Ocasio-Cortez, and that Democrats smallest House majority in decades will give them little wiggle room to pursue left-leaning policies if moderates oppose them.
One of the things that ginned me up to run was doing battle with [Ocasio-Cortez], Gimenez said. I want to do battle with them. I want to fight them in the arena of ideas. I think their ideas and where they want to take this country is completely wrong. Im not here to battle every Democrat. I am here to battle [The Squad]. I will do that with my last breath.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article247272759.html
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GOP anti-socialism 'Freedom Squad' (Original Post)
mia
Nov 2020
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captain queeg
(10,196 posts)1. I think they really mean Anti Democracy
Come on rethugs, just say what you really mean
ck4829
(35,075 posts)2. "Socialism" being whatever Republicans don't like today
So kinda redundant.
DFW
(54,378 posts)3. Republican war strategy--organize a nuclear strike force to attack a mosquito
Oh, but they know who their adversaries are:
mitch96
(13,903 posts)4. Yup, sounds good. Make sure they cut out that Corporate socialism when the banks and auto companies
go belly up with "too big to fail" crap.. Oh yea that Gd Damn VA socialized medicine too.. F'n commies.. That senate and congress bennies have to go also. They are all millionaires so they don't need the over priced health care, right?
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bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)5. This will go just as well as "Freedom Fries" in the Congressional cafe.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,337 posts)6. Lol they are so bad at having fun.
SKKY
(11,807 posts)7. Running away from Socialism, and straight into the welcoming arms of Facism.
JHB
(37,160 posts)8. They want to "fight in an arena of ideas" against the cartoon characters in their heads
They don't want to be legislators, they want to be performance artists.