Mark McCloskey is running for Senate in Missouri, and his chief selling point is that he brandished a gun at racial justice protesters. This again shows how essential a fantasy fiction version of the leftist threat has become to GOP identity. New piece:
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Candidates often speak of a transformative experience that awakened their desire to serve the public.
McCloskey's version?
“God came knocking on my door disguised as an angry mob. It really woke me up."
That's quite a moment of divine inspiration!
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McCloskey's version?
“God came knocking on my door disguised as an angry mob. It really woke me up."
That's quite a moment of divine inspiration!
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The key ingredient is the complete unshackling of oneself from any empirical constraints in depicting the leftist threat.
The protests inspired this with peculiar force, as @lionel_trolling notes. But there's also a strain of religious fanaticism to it:
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The protests inspired this with peculiar force, as @lionel_trolling notes. But there's also a strain of religious fanaticism to it:
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@lionel_trolling This form of anti-leftist derangement creates a permission structure for Republicans to allow extreme right wing radicalization to continue flourishing without accountability
This is how Republicans have fake-justified opposing the 1/6 commission:
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This is how Republicans have fake-justified opposing the 1/6 commission:
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