In a game of “you might be a Democratic Socialist if…,” Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon would turn out all too predictable. In addition to her highlight reel of astonishing moments this year, Nixon also promotes a litany of extreme, progressive policies. Here are some of the highlights:

1. Unlimited Abortion

Right next to “Medicare for All,” “comprehensive [health care] coverage,” and price controls on drugs, Nixon’s campaign website sets as a goal “Protecting reproductive freedom.” And the euphemistic phrase conveys all the barbarism normally associated with it. According to Nixon, “reproductive freedom” includes “the right to abortion, contraception, and IVF, free from political interference.” Political interference, in turn, would be any legal restrictions on these procedures, such as limits on late-term abortion, parental notification laws, and ultrasound and other basic safety requirements.

Beyond abortion, this language would also rule out any regulation of IVF, such as basic safeguards for the human embryos created in the process, as well as any restriction of genetic modifications, including cloning, human-animal chimeras, and designer babies.

2. No Aid to Israel

Nixon recently voiced support for the Massie amendment that would cut all military aid to Israel. “We cannot continue to send money to countries that are violating international law, that are violating human rights,” she insisted. Israel has not been proven guilty in a fair court on either count, but that is beside the point for Nixon.

In November 2023, Nixon filed a resolution to call for an immediate ceasefire, which not even other Democrats in the Florida legislature would support. Within weeks of Hamas’s brutal terror attack, while most of the Israeli hostages were still trapped in Gaza, Nixon wanted to force Israel to prematurely end its war of self-defense, before it had recovered the hostages.

3. Return to DEI

In a recent interview, Nixon openly endorsed policies that promote “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI). “You have to put the DEI policies back in place,” she insisted. “You definitely have to work to level the playing field.”

Nixon acknowledged how controversial such policies are but dismissed the objections out of hand. “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with DEI, with leveling the playing field. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

Her argument for DEI veered close to making an argument for racial reparations. “Why do we not want people to start at the same point and have access to everything? Just because you’re giving me a little bit of access to certain things doesn’t make it whole for … like generations of trauma, generations of living in poverty,” she argued. “It’s gonna take me 20 more years or whatever to, like, get caught up, just based on like my family history, right?”

4. No Immigration Enforcement

In another interview, Nixon defined her position as a secure border, plus amnesty for illegal immigrants — or, as she calls them, “folks.” “I support a comprehensive and clear pathway to citizenship for folks,” she declared.

However, Nixon often goes much further in her rhetoric, using severe language to vilify federal law enforcement officers tasked with enforcing the law on anyone inside the border. She has called ICE officers “kidnappers” and “thugs,” decried ICE detainment centers as “makeshift concentration camps,” and opined that their process was “reminiscent of … modern-day slave catching almost.”

Nixon has also complained that, by enforcing federal immigration laws on illegal immigrants, “we are funding state-sanctioned violence.” Of course, that’s the very definition of policing. The fact that the violence is state-sanctioned, as opposed to vigilante, is what makes it legitimate.

But in Nixon’s eyes — or at least in her words — the violence is not legitimate. She has stoked fear that ICE operations could spill over at any moment into random violence against black Americans. “We’re black. They gonna profile us, too,” she warned. “They can’t tell the difference between a black American that is a descendant of slaves here in this country or someone from Jamaica or Nigeria.”

“They are going to racially profile us,” she continued, “and they are going to escalate things, and they are going to shoot and kill us.”

One must admit that Nixon is at least colorful and imaginative. At the very least, she would not be a boring senator. Yet the question is whether her policies fit the state of Florida. Nixon’s policies reflect the DSA agenda, because she is a member of that organization. But many Floridians — especially those whose families fled socialism in places like Cuba and Venezuela — are not very keen on socialism. Whether there are enough of these to defeat Nixon’s Senate bid remains to be seen in November.