Charles Pierce: Republicans Are Nominating More Fringe than Victorian Drapery

[kpete]

Where do they find these people? Seriously, is there some kind of Republican hiring hall out there somewhere, at which tables full of bad and/or deranged candidates sit, playing with their toes or with 48-card decks, until somebody calls their number and they run for something? With the U.S. Senate on the line, Georgia Republicans have lined up behind a former running back who is forever being horse-collared by the English language. The Pennsylvania Republicans are running a refugee from Oprah’s House O’Quacks who’s being trolled into a fine mist by his Democratic opponent. And the Ohio Republicans are running a hedge-fund bot last seen campaigning in Israel and telling women to stay in violent marriages.

And the further you go down the ballot, the further afield the derangement goes. Arizona’s Republican ballot is thick with election truthers. And in Missouri, there is a candidate for Congress who is that rarest of birds, the George Floyd truther.

Of course, when you spend 40 years telling people that government is the problem, it's not hard to turn politics into a carnival act whose only purpose is to be a spectacle of public amusement.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a40773665/michael-peroutka-gop-extremists/

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Mr Pierce - udaman.

[sop]

2. Only Charlie Pierce could come up with "forever being horse-collared by the English language" and

"a refugee from Oprah’s House O’Quacks who’s being trolled into a fine mist by his Democratic opponent."

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[no_hypocrisy]

4. IMO, they're opportunists and generic Sheeple.

The same demographic was blindly following Reagan 40+ years ago b/c he was the "new flavor". GHWB, Bob Dole, GWB, etc. not so much.

They follow demagogues simply to get close to power and to attain financial opportunities through networks.

[niyad]

5. That headline!! I nearly spit out my coffee!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Mr. Pierce does not have enough digital ink to name all the fringe on those drapes.

[brer cat]

7. K&R

[uponit7771]

8. K&R,

[area51]

9. Trouble is, they're not fringe, they're the norm of the nazi party now. n/t

[maxsolomon]

13. Exactly. Where are you going to find a Republican that

doesn't embrace QAnon?

[lastlib]

10. One of the GOPee Senate candidates in Missouri has only one claim to fame--

that he (and his wife) waved guns at black people. And for that, he thinks he is worthy of the U.S. Senate? These idjits truly are delusional. Even heavy drugs can't explain this sh*t.

[malthaussen]

11. He gets extra points for using "drapery." n/t

[bagimin]

12. k& highly recommended