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Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said on Newsmax Tuesday that he plans to actively campaign for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, citing the Democrat Party’s extremism.
In an appearance on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Dershowitz said Democrats embrace political extremism. He also said they abandoned core constitutional principles, a shift that he said left him no choice but to walk away from the party he supported for more than six decades.
“They’re [Democrats] not succeeding in persuading the American people that they’re up to a leadership role, which is why, after me being a Democrat for 60 or more years, I am now going to campaign very hard for the Republicans to maintain control of the House and the Senate. Not because I love the Republican agenda,” Dershowitz told host Greta Van Susteren. “It’s because I’m totally frightened if the Democrats were to gain control of either House. Who they would appoint as chair people? Who they would put in the position of inquisitors, and how they would deny rights to people, and how they would introduce a kind of McCarthyism that we haven’t seen since I was a college student in the 1950s?”
Dershowitz singled out Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman as one of the few Democrats who still values principle and bipartisanship.
“It’s left-wing McCarthyism. We’re seeing it throughout the Democratic Party with a few exceptions, like the great Senator Fetterman, who you interviewed, who really is the one person who represents principle, represents honesty, and really nonpartisan approaches in the Democratic Party,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz said the Democrat Party has veered too far left.
“I wish his colleagues would learn from him, but they don’t. They are moving toward the extreme, extreme left, and the only thing they care about is trying to hurt President Trump,” Dershowitz added.
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