If you are not frightened by what the former Republican Party has become in the grips of Donald Trump, you should be after this bizarre QAnon cult rally in Youngstown, Ohio for J.D. Vance on Saturday. Lauren Sue reports at Daily Kos, ‘This is the week when Trump became Qanon’: Crowd responds with bizarre hand … Read more
Americans face a stark choice in this election: do you want to preserve and to defend the American democracy we have enjoyed for 246 years, or do you want to burn it all down for a grifter, con man, thief and criminal who wants to be the autocratic dictator of an authoritarian GQP tyranny of … Read more
Case in point: Doug Mastriano, the White Christian Nationalist, QAnon cultist, and insurrectionist who was at the MAGA/QAnon insurrection on January 6, 2021, and is now the Republican nominee for governor. “Mainstream” Republicans opposed Mastriano in the Republican primary because he is a dangerous extremist, but guess what? Once Alarmed, Mainstream Pennsylvania Republicans Unite Around … Read more
Kathryn Joyce at Salon does a better job of covering this than local Arizona news outlets. Arizona’s Kari Lake celebrates BDE (um, “Big DeSantis Energy”) at right-wing lovefest: During a Sunday night political rally that began with a prayer, Arizona’s far-right Republican gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake, quickly dived into insult comedy. The former Fox affiliate … Read more
Above: h/t New York Times Magazine. The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy long-form report on The Arizona Republican Party’s Anti-Democracy Experiment (excerpts): What a lede! Rose Sperry, a state committeewoman for Arizona’s G.O.P., answered immediately when I asked her to name the first Republican leader she admired. “I grew up during the time that … Read more