The rise of the zero-issue candidate
One thing that did not happen on June 28 is that an angry mob of fascists did not arrive in a tony neighborhood in St. Louis intent on destroying a luxury home and murdering its occupants.
After photos emerged of residents of such a home pointing a handgun and a rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters in that city on that day, the photographed couple, Mark and Patricia McCloskey, claimed that members of the protest had threatened them and that they were worried about the safety of their house. But the house was simply on the protest’s route to the home of St. Louis’s mayor, and Mark McCloskey later admitted that the threats he’d heard were offered only after he started marching around with a rifle.
Yet McCloskey, now running for Missouri’s soon-to-be-open Senate seat, has retconned his behavior into some Alamo-esque last stand against left-wing authoritarianism (which, no matter what you think of Black Lives Matter, is not an apt description).
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“When the fascist mob came to my door, it woke me up,” McCloskey says in his ad, during a stretch when the imagery is transitioning from showing him outside his expensive mansion to showing him at a small farm, bouncing along on a tractor. “When the angry mob came to destroy my house and kill my family, I took a stand against them,” he says at another point. And when Chicken Little discovered that the sky was falling, she hastened to tell the king.
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