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An incoming Republican congresswoman who was born in Soviet-controlled Ukraine says she thinks it is “strange” how young people in the US have embraced socialism and that she launched her run for office because she was concerned about the ideology’s damaging effects on the country.
“I’m kind of going full circle. So I can tell you what is going to be next. It’s very sad for me to see that. And that made me, as a mother of two daughters, it made me get involved and do something about it because that’s not very good for our country,” Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz told “Fox & Friends” in an interview on Monday.
“It’s just strange to me how quickly these ideas can [take hold] especially for young people,” said Spartz. “A lot of those kids [say], ‘I’m Marxists.’ I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me? Do you even know what it means?’”
Spartz, a former Indiana state senator, said she grew up under socialism and “I saw what happens when this runs out of money, and it’s not pretty.”
She said she left Ukraine 20 years ago when she was 21 with a suitcase after meeting her husband and now she has come “full circle” to find socialism on the rise in the US.
“It’s unbelievable for me,” she told host Ainsley Earhardt. “Of all of the countries in the world, our country fought so much against this utopic socialistic idea that it’s crazy for me to see how quickly we made the turn to the left.”
Spartz and other GOP freshmen – Reps-elect Nicole Malliotakis, Carlos Gimenez and Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida – have formed an alliance known as the “Freedom Force” to counter the progressive messages of Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the “Squad.”
Asked by Earhardt what she tells moderate Democrats and Republicans who voted for President-elect Joe Biden, who dismissed the idea that socialism will gain a foothold in America, Spartz said they just need to look at history.
“I think that we need to be good students of history. In our country for the last century we fought against socialism and a lot of young kids died. I took my kids to the beaches of Normandy, and you can see how many young kids died fighting for freedoms,” Spartz said.
“Every socialistic system it’s about suppression, and we have to value our freedoms because we’re the greatest Republic that ever existed,” she continued.
Spartz defeated Democrat Christina Hale by 4 percentage points – 50 to 46 percent – in November in a district that Democrats had hoped to flip.
She will replace GOP Rep. Susan Brooks, who retired before a fifth term, in the congressional district that includes parts of northern Indianapolis.
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