From JD Vance to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican party put radical figures front and center
In Cleveland, Ohio, in 2016, Donald Trump received the Republican presidential nomination as the leader of a successful political insurgency against the party elites, and far-right extremists the party had once tried to ostracize crossed the convention’s threshold for the first time.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s main stage convention speech on Monday night was full of falsehoods and distortions about immigrants and LGBTQ+ advocates and dog whistles about “globalists”, and it featured a gratuitous assertion that “there are only two genders, and we are made in God’s image”.
North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, is now the Republican gubernatorial nominee in the state and also spoke on the convention stage on Monday night. Just weeks earlier,at a church in the town of White Lake that “some folks need killing”, apparently with reference to perceived political adversaries , such as those who espouse “socialism and communism”.was “created by an agnostic Jew” and the film based on the comic was “created to pull the shekels” out of Black people’s pockets.
Busch is an inveterate denier of the results of the 2020 election and co-founded the We the People AZ Alliance Pac, which state records indicate hasof $1m since it was founded in 2020, from donors including the MyPillow founder, Mike Lindell, and from organizations linked to Lindell and his fellow Trump associate Michael Flynn.
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