Former Illinois Democrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Sunday on Newsmax that the “lunatics have taken over the asylum” in his party, and have now become the mainstream rather than the fringe members.

“The lunatic fringe of the Democratic Party was always there when I was a Democratic governor and a Democratic congressman, [and] that is where they should stay,” said Blagojevich on Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “Now they’ve taken over the party. They’ve become the mainstream of the Democratic Party. This is where the energy is, and it is a socialist/Communist party.”

It’s not only because of the “crazy ideas” the far left have, said Blagojevich, but “they’re all about trying to take away individual initiative and have the government make more decisions for the people.”

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