Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts compared President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement to the Confederacy during a Monday campaign appearance in Boston, delivering one of the sharper attacks heard in an already heated Democrat Senate primary.
The accusation turned a routine endorsement event into another display of progressive political theater.
Pressley spoke at Roxbury Community College while campaigning for Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts.
Markey is seeking another term but first must defeat Rep. Seth Moulton in the Democrat primary.
“It is bigger than Trump,” Pressley said.
Her message was that removing Trump from the White House would not eliminate the political forces she believes are represented by his supporters.
“Because whenever we do the work of ousting the occupant of the Oval Office, the Confederacy is still alive and well. That’s all MAGA is.”
The sweeping charge placed millions of Trump voters in the same rhetorical bucket as a rebellion formed to tear the nation apart.
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