Is newcomer Congressman Dan Crenshaw, the Republican Party’s rising star, the answer to the rising liberal Left?
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an Crenshaw is just 35 years old, but he’s already lived in four countries, completed two university degrees, served for ten years in the Navy Seals (including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan) and won his first-ever electoral race, capturing a seat in the US House of Representatives in 2018.
How’s that for an opening act?
He is considered a young political star, one of the hottest names in the Republican Party. How hot? If you type his name into Google, the search engine’s “auto fill” function already provides an entry for “Crenshaw 2024.”
Crenshaw got so far, so fast with an unapologetically conservative agenda, all delivered with a smile. He’s an enthusiastic capitalist who warns that socialism has no place in the United States. He’s a fierce critic of the identity politics and the increasingly radical progressive wing of the Democratic Party. At the same time, he is a peacemaker who promotes respectful political discourse, always looking to discover what unites Americans and not what divides them.
He said socialist candidates like Bernie Sanders are trying to buy people off with campaign promises. “They try to tell them that they can’t take care of themselves. And only the government can take care of them,” Crenshaw told Mishpacha in an exclusive interview. “That’s a really dishonest and immoral way to run a country, and ultimately, it’s an unsustainable way to run a country.”
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