It’s a favorite red herring used by Republicans when they cannot possibly win a debate on facts or reason: Cry socialism.
But as one GOP congressman found out Tuesday, using the socialism cry doesn’t always end well when someone turns the argument on its head and exposes you as as fearmongering demagogue.
The setting was the House Rules Committee. Rep. Nick Langworthy (R-NY) insisted, “We will not have a cradle to grave dependency. This country will not be all things to all people. We cannot create an expectation that government is all things to all people.”
Langworthy then asked Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who was testifying as a witness:
Waters noted that the Trump administration ran up the national debt and spent like a drunken sailor, pointing out that Langworthy’s fears about socialism were bogus, asking him if the vaunted GOP/Trump Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that many Republicans in Congress took funds from was socialist.
Langworthy reiterated his question about whether or not Waters agreed with what Trump said about socialism. To that, she responded:
Finally, Waters shut down Langworthy by telling him:
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