Chris Matthews, a longtime left-wing pundit, appeared on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” program where he tried to convince the viewing audience that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is as “American as apple pie.” The statement was met with massive pushback on social media, with many pointing out that she’s a socialist with values that are in direct conflict with those our nation was founded on.
“They’re going to come up with something dirty. They’re going to try to make all Democrats into something like the Marxist wing of the DSA. They’re going to try to make it really bad, and they’re going to make it nasty, like they did with going after the trans kids in the last election,” Matthews went on to say during the segment.
“Just remember, people on the sidelines of an NFL game, all of a sudden they’re watching this new ad in the third quarter of the game. Where that ad come from? What’s all this about?” he continued, randomly whining about political advertising out of the blue.
The Democratic journalist then said, “Karl Rove told me the Republicans are good at that last six weeks where they come up with something really nasty, like Willie Horton,” referencing an old, very effective political ad about a horrible criminal the Democrats let out of jail, who predictably went on to commit more awful crimes after being released.
“By the way, his name was never Willie in his whole life. They came up with the name Willie because they wanted to sound black. Excuse me. They are very good at confecting this stuff. And I can see, they can do something with the DSA. They’re going to make them into real Marxist, they’re going to play the game,” he continued.
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“Personally, I think AOC is as American as apple pie. It won’t work with her. It may work with some others, but I think they’re going to get nasty. And I think it’s going to be a really great close,” Matthews concluded. It didn’t take long for folks to get on social media platform X and begin to skewer Matthews over his wildly off-base comments.
One individual explained, briefly, that the Democratic Socialists of America are indeed “Marxist and Socialist,” as the name suggests. The DSA recently updated their platform, calling for the abolition of the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the office of president. Just a quick glance at the rest of their platform on the group’s official website will prove this comment to be accurate.
“AOC has made repeated, documented statements criticizing American capitalism as irredeemable, describing USA as an oligarchy framing its history around white supremacy, imperialism. These align with dem-socialist and DSA-influenced views that draw on Marxist class analysis,” another individual wrote in a reply on X.
Someone else wrote, “Only if the Apples are grown, and imported from China and Turkey.” Another individual commented, “He’s as demented & delusional as Joe Babbling Biden.” Another user stated, “The DSA is the Marxist wing of the Democrat Party.” Matthews was also slammed for making crazy predictions and almost always being wrong. “I love these talking head psychics who predict things – and are never right,” someone wrote.
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