“Help me defeat the Squad,” Republican Steve Louro wrote, announcing a May 16 fundraiser at the home of fellow Republican David Bercow, in Armonk, an upscale suburb in Westchester County, New York. The cause? The defeat of “radical Jamaal Bowman.”

It’s not surprising that Republicans would oppose Bowman, a black democratic socialist. But these Republicans aren’t organizing behind a Republican general election candidate. They’re supporting Bowman’s Democratic opponent, George Latimer.

That means that Democrats in Westchester, including centrists who don’t always agree with Bowman’s progressive politics — which have included public funding for renewable energy and a cease-fire in Gaza — who vote for Latimer would be allying themselves with MAGA backers.