So we try not to engage in just partisan rhetoric and hyperbole. Like when I call him a communist jihadist, I call him a communist because he's called for, among other things, seizing the means of production. which is the very essence of the economic core of communism. Yeah, I call him a jihadist. Okay, let me read you from his tweet. (16:51–16:57)
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Asserts that [Comrade Mamdani] is a communist for advocating the seizure of the means of production.
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