Republicans got their midterms bogeyman in Zohran Mamdani. Now comes the challenge: making the incoming New York City mayor’s brand of democratic socialism sink candidates outside his liberal bubble. They’re getting right to it. Republicans’ House campaign arm launched digital ads Wednesday morning across 49 battleground districts tying Democrats to the “socialist mayor” who “built his movement on defunding the police and abolishing ICE.”

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    1 month ago

    Not just this, but the entire idea of making groceries and rent a little bit more affordable is suddenly “communism”

    This is a bunch of crazy bullshit spewed by Republicans to get you scared of doing the right thing and voting for this guy

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      Well it’s only different from the 50’s in the sense that wealth disparity is beyond that of the 1920’s and the current red scare doesn’t have a preceding 20yrs of socialist reforms propping up the economic conditions for the laborers.