DNC chair: GOP concerns over socialism are a 'trick' to distract from 'real' issues
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez charged on "Fox News Sunday" that Republican concerns about the recent election of self-avowed Socialists in Congress -- as well as prominent Democrats' support for the sweeping Green New Deal and "Medicare-for-all" -- are little more than a calculated Republican "trick" to distract from issues that "real people" care about.
President Trump has repeatedly derided socialism in recent weeks amid the ongoing collapse of Venezuela's economy and government, and has vowed that America will "never" become a Socialist country. But Perez suggested that Trump has more in common with Socialist dictators than he would like to admit.
"This is one of the oldest tricks in the playbook, Chris," Perez told anchor Chris Wallace. "You go back 75 years, when Republicans don’t want to discuss issues that matter to real people, they call it socialism. Social Security, when it was being debated -- you had Republicans calling it socialism. The minimum wage, in 1938, you had Republicans calling it socialism. Medicare, Ronald Reagan said, and I quote, 'Medicare will lead to socialized medicine. Medicare will lead to socialism in America.' The Affordable Care Act. ... all of those things were 'socialism.' Why do they do that? Because they don't want to talk about pre-existing conditions."
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