During the 2018 midterms, Turning Point USA’s troll farm, Rally Forge, set up a fake progressive group on Facebook to convince leftwing voters in key races to support the Green Party.
Facebook knew, and did nothing until after the election.
Facebook allows right wing group to pretend to be leftists to split the Dem vote.
Member of the group to FEC: ‘Gee, I’m just new, I didn’t know about these laws.’
Trump’s FEC: ‘We won’t pursue this. How *dare* you ask us to.’
6 months later, group admits it used Rally Forge.
Trump’s FEC Commissioner James “Trey” Trainor, literally scolded the watchdog group for bringing the case to the FEC, and somehow asserted that “APN was established by an unsophisticated individual trying to show his support for several third party candidates.”
It’s worth noting that the “conservative” takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention occurred around the same time as the NRA “conservative” takeover (1977) - and also when the CNP/evangelical movement attached itself to the GOP.
The organizations that have been working to overturn the 2020 election, that have been writing the GOP laws to prevent Democrats from winning elections - ALEC, Heritage, and the CNP - were created and bolted on to the Republican Party around the same time.
Yes, I’m aware that her threat is empty and laughable.
What isn’t laughable though, is that essentially every radicalized, anti-government extremist movement in the country has consolidated under the GOP and in a very real sense captured it.
Mitch McConnell - the leader of the Republican Party in the US Senate - is actively attempting to block a public investigation into these groups and their involvement in the insurrection, because the GOP doesn’t want the public to know about its connections to these groups.
Heritage and ALEC have been working, together, to write the archaic voter suppression laws that are being passed by Republican legislatures in Georgia, Texas, and other states.
Both of those organizations were founded by Paul Weyrich.
Weyrich is also the reason that abortion was weaponized as a political wedge, to consolidate evangelical voters under the Republican Party - and, originally to deny Jimmy Carter a second term.
In 1981, after working to elect Reagan with the evangelical vote, he founded the CNP with Rev. Tim LaHaye - an evangelical preacher, head of the "Moral Majority," and author of the rapturous Left Behind series.
I am not trying to imply that they will get away with it.
This is just further evidence (if we needed any more) for why Dems need to drop all of the bipartisanship efforts on a commission, and create a Select Committee to investigate the insurrectikn, sooner rather than later.
Remember, on a private call with Republicans about HR-1, Koch’s Research Director said “there’s a large, very large, chunk of conservatives who are supportive of these types of efforts.”
And so he said they would need to use “under-the-dome-type strategies” to stop it.