Update to Arizona GQP Should Accurately Be Identified On The Ballot as The ‘QAnon’ Party. QAnon is a “big tent” conspiracy theory that emerged in the fringe corners of the Internet in 2017. It has since amassed millions of supporters, a small portion of whom have been motivated to conduct QAnon-inspired violence, leading the FBI … Read more
A number of years ago, I used to present a one hour seminar on “Things they didn’t teach you in your high school history class” – the unsanitized version of our history that is not included in the hagiographic myth making in virtually every high school text book. The white nationalist MAGA/QAnon cult freakout over … Read more
Let’s just say it: the MAGA/QAnon personality cult Party of Donald Trump is a party of thugs. They are threatening and intimidating poll workers, school boards, and public health officials – literally anyone who does not share their quasi-religious political cult beliefs – with violence and death threats. They are using threats, intimidation and violence … Read more
On Saturday, the pathetic Pima County GQP hosted insurrection co-conspirator Steve Bannon for a so-called Lincoln Day Dinner, shortly after he defied a congressional subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. I’m sorry, but the GQP does not get to use Abraham Lincoln any longer. Lincoln … Read more
David Siders reported at Politico last week, ‘Down the rabbit hole’: Arizona GOP goes full fringe: Just when it seemed Arizona Republicans couldn’t make more of a spectacle, they found another way. As the Republican Party hardens around its fealty to former President Donald Trump, the Arizona GOP is filling up its midterm ballot with … Read more