{"id":1542271,"date":"2022-07-07T06:35:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T10:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542271"},"modified":"2022-07-07T06:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T10:35:21","slug":"maya-flores-is-already-making-all-the-right-people-angry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maya-flores-is-already-making-all-the-right-people-angry\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Flores Is Already Making All the Right People Angry"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaya-flores-is-already-making-all-the-right-people-angry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The story of <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/smoosieq\/2022\/06\/16\/moore-to-the-point-mayra-flores-and-the-red-wave-n579384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Mayra Flores<\/a> captured the attention of the political sphere in June. The Latina Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/carcand\/2022\/06\/14\/breaking-republican-mayra-flores-flips-blue-house-seat-in-south-texas-special-election-n578760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took down<\/a> her Democrat challenger in a Texas district that had been blue for over a hundred years. In doing so, she didn\u2019t just skate by either. She took a district that was D+14 in 2020 and won it by seven points.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, because Flores is a Republican, that means she must be destroyed, and the media are wasting no time in targeting her. The New York Times released a hit piece on Wednesday, painting the freshman congresswoman as a \u201cMAGA Latina\u201d who (gasp!) doesn\u2019t take the January 6th committee seriously.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As her own oath of office coincided with the Jan 6 hearings, Ms. Flores largely dismissed the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, my district doesn\u2019t care about that,&#8221; she said. \u201cMy district is struggling to pay their bills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The MAGA Latina goes to Congress. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gORkxzrrTs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/gORkxzrrTs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jennifer Medina (@jennymedina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jennymedina\/status\/1544674058742075393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We are going to dive into some of the details of the piece in a moment, but first, I\u2019d like to just comment on the idea that Flores is \u201cfar-right.\u201d Does that phrase have any meaning anymore? Or is it just thrown around like an epithet against any Republican the press doesn\u2019t like, i.e. anyone to the right of Larry Hogan? If you actually look at Flores\u2019 policy positions, she\u2019s your typical GOP politician, including being pro-legal immigration. To the extent that she\u2019s \u201cfar-right,\u201d she\u2019s simply where most of the party is, which would mean she\u2019s just\u2026on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how the author of the Times pieces tries to rationalize her assertion, though.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But what is most striking is that Ms. Flores won by shunning moderates, embracing the far right and wearing her support for Donald J. Trump on her sleeve \u2014 more Marjorie Taylor Greene than Kay Bailey Hutchison.<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign slogan \u2014 \u201cGod, family, country\u201d \u2014 was meant to appeal to what she calls the \u201ctraditional values\u201d of her majority-Hispanic district in the border city of Brownsville. She called for President Biden\u2019s impeachment. She tweeted QAnon hashtags. And she called the Democratic Party the \u201cgreatest threat America faces.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, except Flores is not Marjorie Taylor Greene, and since when is Kay Bailey Hutchinson an analog for mainstream Republicanism? It\u2019s now \u201cfar-right\u201d to stand for God, family, and country? I\u2019d also suggest that President Biden deserves to be impeached, so I\u2019m not seeing the radicalism there. Did this author describe Democrats who called for Trump to be impeached as \u201cfar-left?\u201d Heck, the left constantly claims the GOP is a \u201cthreat to democracy,\u201d but it\u2019s bad for Flores to make the same claim about the Democrat Party?<\/p>\n<p>When you boil it all down, this is just another example of the liberal press being unable to cope with the fact that some minorities have dared to break out of the boxes the left has created for them. Flores is Hispanic, and that means she\u2019s supposed to be rabidly pro-illegal immigration and care about January 6th. She doesn\u2019t, though, because that\u2019s not what her constituents care about. Rather, as she noted, they care about how they are going to pay their bills.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And as her own oath of office coincided with the hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, Ms. Flores largely dismissed the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, my district doesn\u2019t care about that,\u201d she said of the hearings. \u201cMy district is struggling to pay their bills. That\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to be focusing on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Times piece laments, Flores is also not anti-Trump, and that\u2019s an unforgivable sin to any beltway journalist. But to make matters worse, she believes in Jesus, and we just can\u2019t have that in Washington.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As she moved into her congressional office across from the Capitol, Ms. Flores, an evangelical Christian, eyed the bare walls. She planned to put up a large photo of the SpaceX launch site in her district as well as images of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>She had campaigned with the support of evangelical churches; her pastor carried out a \u201cMake America Godly Again\u201d outreach effort and traveled to Washington for her swearing-in. \u201cI do believe that pastors should be getting involved in politics and in guiding their congressmen,\u201d Ms. Flores said. \u201cOur pastors know our people better than we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s hilarious to read an excerpt like that, recognizing just how out of touch the Times is with normal Americans. Flores is Hispanic, and most Hispanics are very religious. That\u2019s a good thing, but to hear this Times reporter tell it, the Texas congresswoman is some kind of alien. She has pictures of Jesus! Oh my! She even believes that pastors should be active in their communities. How crazy! Better call her a \u201cfar-right\u201d Latina!<\/p>\n<p>Those on the left don\u2019t know what\u2019s about to hit them in November. They have brushed aside Hispanic voters, believing they can be kept in the fold simply by supporting open borders. Those days are gone now, and the subsequent political shift is going to put a lot more people like Flores in office in the future. The coming red wave isn\u2019t just a result of Biden being a terrible president. It\u2019s a rejection of decades of progressivism at large, and no amount of hit pieces will save Democrats from the backlash that\u2019s already happening. So let them cope and seethe. It\u2019s a thing of beauty to witness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Rep. 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