Stephen Wagley, a Republican candidate for Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, said Saturday that Democrats are now openly willing to call themselves socialists or communists.
\n\nSpeaking with host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, the ordained Baptist deacon said the party had moved far from “our grandparents’ Democrats” and was no longer hiding its ideology.
\n\n“These are people that are now openly willing to say they’re socialist or communist, whichever one they want to call themselves as the days go by,” Wagley said. “And they’re proud of it, and they’re talking about an actual socialist, communist ideology that they want to implement and that they’re willing to fight for.”
\n\nThe candidate pointed to proposals for government-run grocery stores, an idea New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pushed, as evidence of the shift.
\n\n“You know, these people are talking about totally free, government-run grocery stores and how that model is something that’s going to work across the board,” Wagley said. “That’s just crazy.”
\n\nWagley argued the ideology had already reached candidates running this cycle. The host cited Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-backed nominee who won Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary in August; Melat Kiros, a socialist running for Congress…
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