AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Progressive Democrats compare themselves to Jesus Christ in bid to sell left-wing platforms to voters of faith
Three progressive Democratic Senate candidates are invoking Jesus Christ to defend policy positions that include socialism, transgender advocacy, and open defiance of their own party's establishment, a strategy that reveals more about the left's political desperation than its theology. Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, stood before the congregation at […] The post Progressive Democrats compare themselves to Jesus Christ in bid to sell left-wing platforms to voters of faith appeared first on American Almanac .
Three progressive Democratic Senate candidates are invoking Jesus Christ to defend policy positions that include socialism, transgender advocacy, and open defiance of their own party's establishment, a strategy that reveals more about the left's political desperation than its theology. Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, stood before the congregation at Saint Paul AME Church in Jacksonville on Aug. 23 and addressed the criticism that has trailed her since she joined the Democratic Socialists of America in June. She did not push back on the "radical" label. She embraced it, and reached for the highest possible company. "They are trying, y'all. They are trying... to label me as this extremist, this…Open