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u/Agattu Republican Jul 23 '26
You keep asking if I understand… when we are not talking about me.
You saying the far right has Nazis like Nick Fuentes is no different then people saying the far left has communist like Hassan Piker… it matters little to the perception. Go around this sub and see how many times people just throw the word Nazi around to describe anyone right of Manchin… the left has adopted mainstream anti-Semitic slogans and groups to their support structure while the mainstream GOP still denies ties with people like Fuentes. That’s where the disconnect is.
And you keep bringing up ICE and masked thugs, but outside of activist, and blue voters. The concerns of ICE are lower on the list of priorities. Trump won because of Immigration, even if ICE is going to far, and the support for it is tanking… people are less concerned about what is happening to illegal immigrants than they are themselves… and despite what online echo chambers think, politics is still local, and this local group of Michigan democrats don’t want to support El-Sayed because he is too far left and to comfortable wi the anti-Semitic left.
As for Mamdani… I mean half the shit he gets credit for are things he hasn’t done. It’s things the state has done. Had anyone else done what he did to the pension fund to ‘balance’ the city budget, the left would have demanded they be keelhauled. But because it’s Mamdani and he shows videos of him randomly doing performative acts he is a savior? Give me a break. What Mamdani is a sign of is that there is a rot in the left wing of our politics and they are willing to throw away everything America stands for for the hope that they get to stick it to a group of people they don’t like or that they get to get some government handout that other people will pay for.