Trump supporters turn on one-time MAGA candidate they say aids 'communist values'
A lengthy report in Texas Monthly reveals that Trump supporters in Texas are itching to oust Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), despite the fact that he was first elected in 2020 as a Trump-backed MAGA candidate.
According to the report, Gonzales has now drawn several rivals in a Republican primary, all of whom are attacking him for assorted heresies related to immigration, gun safety, and LGBTQ rights.
During a debate that was held earlier this month, his opponents attacked him for being "a full-blown Democrat" despite his solidly right-wing voting record.
Retired Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Victor Avila, for one, went so far as to say that Gonzales' purportedly soft stance on immigration was helping to spread "communist values" that immigrants are supposedly bringing into the United States.
"The American dream is dead now [because of immigrants]," said Avila.
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Frank Lopez Jr., another opponent running against Gonzales, used language reminiscent of the QAnon conspiracy theory to claim that the migration surge at the southern border was part of a nefarious child sex trafficking operation.
Specifically, he said that young migrants are "trafficked into this country to feed a horrible, demonic, perverted hunger for the bodies of little boys and little girls."
Not to be outdone in terms of apocalyptic rhetoric was former Medina County GOP Chairwoman Julie Clark, who claimed, "we truly believe the 2024 election is going to be the last stand for this country if we don’t get involved, if we don’t elect the right people to represent us and are doing it for the right reasons.”
Gonzales, for his part, says he isn't sweating any challenge from his right flank.
"I don’t take any s--t from anybody," he defiantly told the publication.