After years of decrying McCarthyism, Lindsey Graham accuses members of Congress of being Communists

[TheBlackAdder]

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At this point, Graham is just a Putin & Trump stooge. He'll soon be entering Theater of the Absurd territory.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who once spoke out against President Donald Trump’s racism, adopted an “if-you-can’t-beat-’em-join-’em” philosophy on Monday, echoing the president’s racist attacks against progressive Democratic congresswomen of color.

Graham attacked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) by name and others by association during a Fox News interview, claiming they were “Communists” who “hate our own country.”

Graham specifically criticized “this crowd” — an apparent reference to Ocasio-Cortez and Reps. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Trump had attacked the four lawmakers in a series of racist tweets over the weekend, suggesting the four should “go back” to their home countries to “help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
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“We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of Communists, they hate Israel, they hate our own country, they’re calling the guards along our border — the border patrol agents — concentration camp guards,” Graham said Monday, piling on top of Trump’s racist comments. “They accuse people who support Israel as doing it ‘for the Benjamins.’ They’re anti-Semitic, they’re anti-America.”

More at the jump:

https://thinkprogress.org/after-years-of-decrying-mccarthyism-lindsey-graham-accuses-members-of-congress-of-being-communists-e2417674ae98/

He's becoming disjointed with reality as he spins himself into multiple aspects of reality, with confusion the endpoint.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. More ammunition for Jamie Harrison to use against Lindsey Graham.....

Accusing a fellow person of color of hating America, being Anti-Semetic, a Communist.

I hope he uses that FOX sound bite in an add against Graham and soon.

[beachbum bob]

2. Let's see, NRA gets commie money from Russia gives/spends on GOP...

Is that the commies lindsay talking about?

[struggle4progress]

3. meh.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Thank you for the post.

Glad to see someone flesh out my exact thoughts. We are seeing in real time a repeat of the early fifties and the rein of terror that Joe McCarthy,Roy Cohn and Richard Nixon ran as a political retribution against the Jewish Community and Hollywood in particular in order to gin up a fake threat to our Nation.