Posted on 08/21/2026 8:00:11 AM PDT by DFG
On Wednesday, after Democratic socialist candidate Angie Nixon was victorious in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, MS NOW reporter Alex Tabet worried that Cubans in Florida would not vote for Nixon because of Republicans’ “incorrect conflation of communism and Democratic socialism.”
Tabet joined new MS NOW host Peter Alexander’s show, State of Play, live from Florida after the primary.
Alexander asked about Nixon, whom he called an “unfamiliar name,” and wondered if Democrats were “bullish about her campaign or anxious about what it may mean in a red state.”
Tabet responded and said there was a “skittishness here on the ground in Florida.”
He noted how there was “about a million and a half more registered Republicans than Democrats” in the state, which has now voted for Trump three times, with his 2024 victory margin at 13.1 percent.
Tabet then turned towards the conversation of Cuban voters in the state, who fled a Fidel Castro-led communist Cuba for Florida. He stated, “You also have about 1.6 million members of the Cuban diaspora. Those Cubans often lean conservative. Many of them have a strong aversion towards communism.”
But Tabet, in a scornful tone, moved to claim there may be a false attack on Nixon by Republicans because of a false “conflation”:
What we’ve been hearing from Republican politicians, from President Trump on down, is a conflation, an incorrect conflation, of communism and Democratic socialism.
He then worried, “If that messaging sticks, that could be a serious issue for Angie Nixon.”
As for the false conflation, the official Democratic Socialists of America released a statement last week that, in their own words, “commemorates the centenary of Fidel Castro.”
Top DSA-aligned influencer and far-left streamer Hasan Piker, whom Nixon claimed to have never heard of, has called Fidel Castro and Che Guevara “lions” and added, “They were revolutionary heroes.”
To close out his report, Tabet noted the loss of DSA candidate Oliver Larkin, and said, “That was the DSA’s big hope on Tuesday, but Oliver Larkin got absolutely rocked, lost by almost 30 points last night.”
Tabet could label Republican attacks as an “incorrect conflation,” but with DSA policies and members with affinities towards communists like Castro, it seemed to be fair game, especially in a state that has shifted heavily Republican in recent years, like Florida.
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Trying to gaslight people that lived communism doesn’t work. This drek is for the benefit of the stupid watchers.
Didn’t DSA issue a statement the other day commemorating Castro’s hundredth birthday?
She's also worried about incorrect conflation of "satan" and "the devil" ...
MS NOW and their audience will double down on communism. That’s to be expected.
In Marxist theory, false consciousness is a term describing the ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies
They've been pushing this sort of BS for over a century.
All collectivist polities are on a spectrum — like how rabies progresses from an “ouchie” on your arm to killing others.
Oh, and by the way, once any symptom shows up you are doomed. Only a half dozen people in history have survived. And, ~60,000 people die every year.
Commie trash will better that kill rate in a month — kinda like the Vax did to preggie Moms-to-be that miscarried once they got the jab.
Those paths are poison. Always, since the beginning of time.
Incorrect? S-cuse me. Well mizz now YOU may be incorrect. Highly likely in fact.
Cubans in Florida also know:
If it walks like a pato and quacks like a pato, it is not a cisne.
EC
Would it help to understand the concept of “dialectic?”
The “enlightened” know that “progress” is one step forward...two steps backward. It is necessary to re-define the struggle to maintain the struggle.
Wow, what a scene. So funny the commies fighting over capitalist distribution of profits.
Communism better than DSA.
What is that hideous smock she has on?
LOL LOL I got a request for MSDNC, how about they give up THEIR wealth and see how they react. Open their wallets, open their bank accounts and spread the wealth, oh yeah almost forgot, we cant touch THEIR wealth, but everyone else is A OK
They really do look like a bunch of Commies!
Communism and being Nazi is the Democratic Socialist’s wet dream. Until they beak out the guns!
.......Top DSA-aligned influencer and far-left streamer Hasan Piker, whom Nixon claimed to have never heard of, has called Fidel Castro and Che Guevara “lions” and added, “They were revolutionary heroes.”........
“Noo” Socialists are trying to gaslight Cuban Americans, bur it won’t work!
Cuban Americans know that Fidel Castro and Che Guevara were mass murderers and enslavers! And they know that “Noo” Socialists may try to do the same things if they gain power!!
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