JD Vance follows a who's who of extremists on Twitter, including antisemites, conspiracy theorists, and white supremacists.
Thread on the weirdos and freaks that the VP candidate follows: 🧵
Pedro Gonzalez is a right-wing influencer who has said "as a group" Jews are "problematic" and advocated for "screening them for movements"
Richard Hanania wrote on for white supremacist publications under a pseudonym, advocated for forced sterilizations of "low IQ people" who he claimed were mostly Black and opposes "race-mixing". A lot more here huffpost.com/entry/richard-…
Darren Beattie was fired from the Trump administration after it was revealed he attended a white nationalist conference
Jack Posobiec is a pizzagate conspiracy theorist who has collaborated with neo-Nazis and pushed Russian backed disinformation campaigns splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
Aimee Terese is a "post-left influencer" who advocates to put "misogynists back in the Oval Office" and advocated against consent
Laura Loomer is a white nationalists an self-described "proud Islamophobe" (Trump recently praised her at a rally"
"Bronze Age Pervert" is huge on the far-right: He's an extreme misogynist who has written for white supremacist publications
"Raw Egg Nationalist" is another similar influencer: far-right "lifestyle" influencer and extreme misogynists who's appeared on Infowars and made racist statements online
Scott Greer was fired from the Daily Caller after it was revealed he wrote for a white supremacist website
Candace Owens: antisemite, transphobic, racist -- we know who she is
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Remember when the Project 2025 head said "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"?
Turns out that wasn't an off the cuff remark -- the sentiment is repeated throughout his now-delayed book.
@mmfa has a galley copy of Kevin Roberts' Dawn's Early Light. Publication has been delayed amid a political crisis for Trump over his connections to Project 2025.
Roberts casts the modern conservative movement in revolutionary terms.
"Winding down its policy operations" is misleading.
The policy work has been largely complete since they published their 900 page book in April 2023. Project 2025 includes an indispensible concentration of policy proposals in the conservative movement mediamatters.org/heritage-found…
Kevin Roberts on 7/12: “Never before has the conservative movement been this unified around a governing agenda”
Project 2025 is about securing the legacy of Trumpism for the next GOP administration and beyond.
NEW: @mmfa has launched a major new project tracking Trump's closest advisers across the entire right-wing media. This resource will be updated on a weekly basis.
We are tracking a close-knit circle of operatives -- from podcast hosts to think tank presidents to far-right internet trolls, based on public reporting on who's exerting influence behind the scenes on Trump.
Trumpworld is a volatile, back-biting universe. Power centers rise and fall on an extremely fluid basis. We're going to update this peice with breaking news as it develops.