(John Ransom, Headline USA) Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., who is often mentioned as successor to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., cited left-wing dictator Hugo Chavez, who turned prosperous Venezuela into another Cuba, and then labor leader Cesar Chavez as inspirations for the Democrats attempt to take over elections from the states.
Jefferies’s admission about Hugo Chavez was “a whopper of a Freudian slip,” said Mediate.
“Jeffries immediately caught himself and established that he meant Cesar Chavez,” reported Mediaite, “not the authoritarian former president of Venezuela who has become a right-wing boogeyman figure.”
But others said that Jefferies is merely accidentally telling the truth about who is the real inspiration for Democrats.
“The Democrats’ election takeover bill being inspired by Hugo Chavez is a classic Washington ‘gaffe’—accidentally telling the truth,” said Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ariz.
The Democrats’ election takeover bill being inspired by Hugo Chavez is a classic Washington “gaffe”—accidentally telling the truth. https://t.co/Pn1rdcgHll
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) January 19, 2022
Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned that the comparison is all too appropriate, calling out the Democrat wolfish attempts to attack conservatives, reminiscent of Hugo Chavez.
“Recall the ruthlessness of Hugo Chavez in taking over Venezuela,” Gingrich wrote in Newsweek, citing the J6 commission, FBI/DOJ investigations over trivial charges and persistent lies from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., about intelligence sources not available to the public, as similar to tactics used by dictators.
“He destroyed or exiled middle-class opponents,” Gingrich said of the Venezuelan dictator. “Meanwhile, the militia was cheerful about using force to destroy the middle class, which had created a successful, wealthy Venezuela.”
The Republican National Committee, also jumped on the Jeffries mistake, with a full quote from the press conference and a video of the slip-up posted to Twitter.
Citing supposed Republican disillusionment after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, Jefferies called the GOP a “cult” for opposing the Democrats proposal to take over elections from the states, said the Daily Wire.
“What happened to the modern-day Republican Party?” Jefferies said. “It’s a cult right now. Is it because the cult leader has told you to oppose voting rights?”
