A Wisconsin rightwinger's fall from conservative grace: 'The Maga crowd despises him'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

A Wisconsin rightwinger’s fall from conservative grace: ‘The Maga crowd despises him’

Robin Vos, the state assembly speaker, worked hard to consolidate GOP power by all means, only to find himself under attack from his own party

Alice Herman
Sat 23 Dec 2023 11.00 GMT
Last modified on Sat 23 Dec 2023 11.03 GMT

In early December, a rightwing Wisconsin organization called HOT Government sent out a breathless email: Mike Lindell, the pillow salesman turned election conspiracy theorist and staunch Donald Trump ally, had nominated an important Wisconsin politician for a dubious award.

The prize would go to the person who exemplifies “leadership in BEING AN OBSTACLE TO STOPPING ELECTION CRIME”, the email declared.

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He was in all respects a loyal rightwinger. But Vos has drawn a line at embracing Trump’s false claim that he actually won Wisconsin in 2020 and refused to join colleagues who suggested overturning the 2020 election. His unwillingness to cross that line has turned him into a pariah on the far right, a target of Lindell, an enemy of Trump and a symbol of the current state of the Republican party where loyalty to Trump is the key litmus test.

Now, Vos is fighting elements of his party that rejected the results of the 2020 election and have come to view him not as a hardline conservative who has done more than almost anyone else to strengthen Republicans’ power in the state, but as a corrupt establishment hack complicit in Trump’s undoing.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/23/wisconsin-swing-state-donald-trump-republicans-maga-robin-vos

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[elleng]

1. 'Vos has drawn a line at embracing Trump's false claim that he actually won Wisconsin in 2020

and refused to join colleagues who suggested overturning the 2020 election.'

[SarahD]

2. That's gratitude!

Vos pretty much went the distance for the right wing nutters, ruining state government in the process. Not good enough, I guess. They're like an organized crime family. They like you while you're robbing gas stations, pimping, shaking down business owners, bribing politicians, etc but if you hesitate at murder they put out a contract on your life. I feel no sympathy for Vos. He knew who they were when he got in bed with them.

[Skittles]

3. LOL

suck it up VOS, you helped create that cult now you have to LIVE with them