Ex-Republicans & the Squad

There's been much in the news lately about "The Squad" .... the four freshman Congresswomen of color who Trump has been attacking ... Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

Most of that news has been about Trump's accusations of anti-Semitism against Ilhan Omar (irony alert) for sometimes daring to criticize the government of Israel, and also about the Photoshopped images of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being raped on the pages of a secret Border Patrol Facebook group.

The Squad has also been in the news because of the hand-wringing of disaffected Republicans, former Republicans, and Independents. They fear that these women have been dragging the Democratic party to the Left, and that Trump will basically run against *them* in the upcoming election and will win.

Ex-Republicans, lend me your ears (or eyes) .....

First, I think these Congresswomen are great and so do most Democratic voters. The same goes for Bernie and Elizabeth Warren. Their ideas of Medicare for all and of health services for illegal migrants are not commie-pinko ideas. Virtually every other country in the world offers universal health care to their citizens, and also gives migrants health care when needed. That isn't uber-Left, that is rational and humane.

Second, I get it. You guys had your party eaten alive by Trump and now you have no political home. But you had better get used to the idea that the Democratic party is by definition Left (check out the party's official platform) and we will not let you talk us into becoming the Republican-lite party instead. My advice to you is to suck it up and take your own political party back from Trump, because you can't have mine.