Fringe extremist groups collide

[struggle4progress]

Steven Monacelli
Published Jul. 10, 2021 7:36PM ET

... some attendees openly boasted of participating in events that led to the Jan. 6 riot and speakers gleefully peddled anti-semitic conspiracy theories ...

... QAnon themed shirts were on sale at a merchandise booth in the exhibition hall ... A number of the speakers .. have ties to the QAnon movement. Some were even featured at a recent QAnon conference in Dallas .. including .. Louie Gohmert, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, and .. Allen West ...

... fringe right-wing elements are now comfortably embraced within the mainstream conservative movement ...

... Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick ... espoused ideas with roots in anti-semitic and white nationalist conspiracy theories ...

... Patrick also promoted a version of the “Great Replacement” theory, a key facet of neo-Nazi ideology ...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fringe-extremist-groups-collide-for-one-big-radical-lunatic-insurgency-at-cpac

[lonely bird]

1. These people are psychotic.

This has gone beyond, way, beyond, a difference in political philosophy.

[Warpy]

2. Those 3 Texas dimwits most likely see only a voting bloc to court

They're stupid and completely unprincipled, but not quite that nuts.

[struggle4progress]

3. Which would be worse: if Nazi anti-semitism was sincere or if it were

just a strategy to shore-up a bloc of supporters?

[Warpy]

5. Who cares? The end result is the same

Texas, for reasons known only to itself, prefers to put mentally challenged lunatics into high office.

[struggle4progress]

7. +

[msfiddlestix]

6. I don't see anything about colliding, I see collusion.

in reference to the excerpts.

[ananda]

8. I have loathed Dan Patrick for so long.

I'm truly sick of him!