Election hoaxers win big in Arizona primaries as state Republicans choose sedition over democracy

[Nevilledog]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/3/2114300/-Election-hoaxers-win-big-in-Arizona-primaries-as-state-Republicans-choose-sedition-over-democracy

Well, the results are mostly in from the hellscape of the Arizona Republican primaries and we now have our answer. Arizona Republican voters want fascism, and they want it bad. The unbelievably odious Blake Masters—a Peter Thiel-funded racist conspiracy peddler who's gone all-in on "great replacement" theories that claim immigration is a plot to weaken the power of white people, a man who said after recent mass murders that gun violence was caused by "Black people," a pro-insurrection turd of a person with no redeeming qualities whatsoever—will challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly.

The good news is that this probably animates non-delusional, non-fascist Arizonians to get to the polls to vote in November rather than abide having a Tucker Carlson clone represent them in the Senate. The bad news is that Arizona Republican voters really had an unambiguous vote here, a vote for or against an anti-American, pro-insurrection election hoax promoter with views you'd normally hear only from your most racist uncle—and they went for the fascist. Of course they did.

Nobody in so-called conservatism gets to say, "Oh, the conspiracy-addled racism is an outlier position." Republicans keep campaigning on it, and the base keeps voting for it. State Attorney General Mark Brnovich, running against Masters, couldn't muster even 20% of the vote. Brnovich was punished by the state's fascist base for not helping Donald Trump spread election hoaxes used to justify a coup attempt. He was punished for not assisting in an act of sedition.

That was a theme for Arizona Republicans. Republican Speaker of the House Rusty Bowers testified to the House committee investigating Trump's coup, again making it clear that Trump and his allies were simply lying about an election he lost. For refusing to support a treasonous conspiracy, Republican voters booted him from office, because Arizona Republican voters are ... pro-sedition.

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[msongs]

1. what is the chance dems can take over one or both legislature houses this fall? seems I recall

they are only a few seats short

[Nevilledog]

3. It's close, but new gerrymandering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_State_Legislature

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Sanity is the only outlier in the radicalized Republican party.