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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Michael Waltz- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-02-15

U.S. House Rep. Michael Waltz, from FL-6, who has advocated to invade Afghanistan AGAIN only months after troops were pulled out.

On this date in 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled the sitting U.S. House Representative from Florida’s 6th Congressional District, Michael Waltz, who is now serving in his second term in office after being re-elected in the 2020 elections to replace former Congressman, consistent racist, and current Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Now Rep. Waltz, who is the first Green Beret ever elected to Congress, cut his teeth in politics working as a senior adviser for Dick Cheney regarding South Asia during the Bush administration, and also advised Dubya on counterterrorism. We’re relieved to see him, however, throwing cold water on other conservatives who want war at times, and he was a vocal critic of Donald Trump’s decision to let Turkish forces attack our Kurdish allies in Syria as well as when he was pushing back against talk of war with Iran…

Hell, we can’t give him credit for trying to be one of the people who wanted Trump to put the brakes on going to war with Iran, because Waltz is the same dumbass who as a candidate went onto Fox News to cheerlead for Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement in the first place.

Nothing like bringing one of the people who helped oversee the Iraq War want to do another one, y’know? And we’re not joking, in August of 2021 as President Biden was pulling U.S. forces out of Afghanistan to end our war there (thanks to Donald Trump, who signed an agreement to reinstall the Taliban in control of the country)… Michael Waltz insisted the United States should invade Afghanistan ALL OVER AGAIN.

We shouldn’t be surprised that this is what his voting record looks like:

Michael Waltz’s vote on December 10th to show he no longer cared about American democracy and wanted the 2020 election overturned was enough to spur the Orlando Sentinel to post an apology for having endorsed him prior to the 2020 November elections. Sadly, in 2022, his district neglected to remember either fact, and the Democratic Party forgot to get a candidate to even successfully file to challenge Waltz for his seat in this +14 Republican-leaning district, meaning he only had to cake-walk past a Libertarian challenger to get a third term in office.

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