Buttigieg Tells Fox Viewers that MAGA is a Cult
By: Peter Wade
you've got to respect political gladiators unafraid to enter the arena of ignorance that is FOX infotainment ...
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Pete Buttigieg offered a dose of reality for viewers on Fox, pointing out the lies and "cult of personality" of Donald Trump. The Biden transportation secretary, when asked about President Joe Biden's fitness for office, turned the question around and cast doubt on Trump's fitness to serve.
Fox News Sunday anchor Shannon Bream asked Buttigieg whether Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumed Democratic nominee, "was aware of how [Biden] was doing" before he made the decision to step down from the presidential race. Buttigieg acknowledged Biden's age but pivoted to criticize Trump.
"Unlike Republicans — right — who in Trump's personality cult will take a look at Donald Trump and say he's perfectly fine, even though he seemed unable to tell the difference between Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, even though he's rambling about electrocuting sharks and Hannibal Lecter, even though he is clearly older and stranger than he was when America got to know him, they say he's strong as an ox, leaps tall buildings in a single bound. We don't have that kind of warped reality on our side," Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg went on to say that in stepping aside, Biden "made one of the most difficult decisions a president could make — ever" and "did something that I don't think Donald Trump could even conceive of doing, which is putting his own interests aside for the country."
He also highlighted the trail of broken promises Trump has made: "He didn't keep his promise of six percent economic growth. He didn't keep his promise to drain the swamp. Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession … He broke his promise to pass an infrastructure bill, right? He said he would do that, he failed to do it. The Biden-Harris administration got it done."
Buttigieg continued, "He even broke his promise to that Jan. 6 mob when he said, 'I will be at your side when you march down to the Capitol.' But he actually did keep two promises: He kept his promise to destroy the right to choose in this country, and he kept his promise on tax cuts for the rich."
When Bream interjected to say that Trump "did say he wanted to get rid of Roe v. Wade, but again, sent it to the states where they are hashing this out."
"And empowered the states to eliminate women's access to abortion and also, as you know, the Republican Party continues to be interested in a national abortion ban," Buttigieg responded.
"Which [Trump] has disavowed completely," Bream said.
"Yeah, he's disavowed a lot of things," Buttigieg said. "Because he lies all the time."
It's notable that Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation's policy proposals for the next Republican administration, which was authored by many former Trump administration officials, calls for eliminating abortion access nationwide in addition to restricting reproductive health care. It proposes rolling back the FDA approval for abortion medications, calling them "the single greatest threat to unborn children." It also would severely limit emergency contraceptive access, including IUDs and morning-after pills. Not only that, it would limit in vitro fertilization and surrogacy and employ the federal government in "abortion surveillance."
The project paints a cruel, far-right vision of America, advocating for broad sweeping policy change, including rolling back climate change regulations, eviscerating the Environmental Protection Agency and increasing fossil fuel production on public land. And it promises to enforce strict limits on immigration and to restrict eligibility for asylum claims while eliminating visas for immigrants who are victims of crime and human trafficking. Additionally, it proposes policies that would allow discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals in the legal, social and medical spheres.
Last year, a top Project 2025 official claimed that Trump was "very bought in" on its policy ideas, but earlier this month, that same official claimed that the idea Trump is linked to the project is a "hoax." The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, has selected a Project 2025 author as its platform policy director.
Trump has claimed to "know nothing" about Project 2025, but as Buttigieg so clearly stated, "He lies all the time."
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a preview of coming harsh realities for the maga cult...
and that they are, and good on Buttigieg for again stuffing it in Fox's farcical face !
Well...he does
I think even some Christians will have heart burn over this
the fear of being ostracized by the maga cult is much greater than the humiliation of bending over in public for trump...
They have gotten their priorities totally screwed up
Interesting that fox actually puts people on their shows that have differing views. Can't say the same for all cable "news" channels.
the general cowardice of maga sycophants to venture outside the softball parks of alt-right media into the msm is closer to reality...
Yea, like msnbc would have them
they have before. how many $1+ billion dollar lawsuits have they settled or now have pending against them?
Have you seen Ari Melber’s show? His interview of Peter Navarro became quite the classic.
classic enough for a 2nd conviction in the future...
”… are you aware that what you are describing is a coup?”
Honestly, I think that’s usually the choice of the person to be interviewed, and not the network. The networks are all about ratings and would love to have controversial (to their audience) people on to be interviewed.
... another speed bump in the maga narrative. I've already seen morons here claim they don't want trump to debate unless he can negotiate an advantage on FOX...
This ain't the first time Pete Buttigieg has made the same or similar claims on FOX programming. Other Democrats have made similar claims on FOX. And FOX is not the only forum where these claims can be made to inform voters.[✘]
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The MAGA cult is larger now than when Clinton began warning about it in 2016. The MAGA cult is more powerful than when Buttigieg was casting aspersions during the 2020 primaries. After this much time and effort to warn about the MAGA cult, why aren't voters listening to Democrats?
At this point it sometimes seems as though prominent Democrats only throw these accusations around to reassure themselves. How could Democrats have missed a grassroots movement like MAGA? It must be a cult or Democrats would have thought of it first.
... mass hysteria among the most ignorant and least patriotic of americans.
Maybe the MAGA cult is mass hysteria. But what's the cause of the hysterics? The vanguard of the Republican 'status quo'[✘]
People tend to react negatively to accusations of being a cult member - even if it’s true.
They are, obviously.
I saw a short clip of Mr. Buttigieg doing this on 'Morning Joe' - he is one adept politician and can he deliver a line! He is a man who can center and focus himself in the heat of the moment.
Pete does this to fox every time he is on their programs. You’d think they would learn by now.
... yeah, no...
It's a cult...
His supporters literally wore bandages on their ears...wow.