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Ted Cruz: “If you are a leftist, yes, if you are a Marxist, yes, if you…”

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And the idea that you're running to be a US Senator and you look at the American flag and think it's a complicated symbol, you know, yes. If you are a leftist, yes, if you are a Marxist, yes, if you are someone who has bought into cultural Marxism and believes America is irredeemably racist, believes that we are a nation of oppressors oppressing victims and that his goal is to overthrow the oppressors. And that is. Listen, Graham Platner in Maine is more expensive. The guy with the tattoo, the ss Sad too, right? (29:41–30:00)

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Asserts that cultural Marxism involves believing America is irredeemably racist and a nation of oppressors.

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