Michael Peroutka and Dan Cox #wingnut #fundie #dunning-kruger

Michael Peroutka and Dan Cox #wingnut #fundie #dunning-kruger newrepublic.com

Republican primary voters in Maryland picked two radical extremists as their nominees in November’s race for governor and attorney general[…]
Peroutka has been elected to county-level office[…]ran in 2004 for president on the far-right Constitution Party[…]
Cox and Peroutka have appeared alongside Pennsylvania’s GOP gubernatorial[…]Doug Mastriano[…]Peroutka has falsely claimed that “there is a lot of evidence that some of these, what you might call voting anomalies, serious anomalies, that have existed across the country, exist here in Maryland as well,” and pledged to “investigate those things, empanel grand juries”[…]
Peroutka’s twin pledges to “prosecute unlawful officials” and “bring God back” to state government emerge from Christian Reconstruction[…]
A central tenet of this ideology is that guns are an essential tool for citizens to rise up against a “tyrannical” (i.e., secular) government. In a May 2021 interview with a radio program called Gun Freedom Radio, Peroutka said “enemies” of America have tried to “use various methods and methodologies to try to undermine a system of government that is based on a biblical worldview.” He claimed the goal of public schools, which he also called “Pharaoh’s schools” and “Hitler’s schools,” was to “de-Christianize America”[…]“They have to get rid of guns, because guns are a practical way, obviously a practical way, the citizenry can fight back”[…]
Peroutka, who has also served on the board of the secessionist League of the South, often gleefully displayed his affection for the Confederacy. In giving an award to Ten Commandments judge Roy Moore in June 2011, he made note of the fact that he was doing so on Jefferson Davis’s birthday[…]
Cox[…]no wallflower when it comes to subverting democracy.[…]On January 6, 2021[…]Cox, who had chartered three buses for constituents[…]tweeted: “Pence is a traitor”

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“They have to get rid of guns, because guns are a practical way, obviously a practical way, the citizenry can fight back”

What about the people killed in mass shootings? Are they collateral damage?

Additional tidbits about these clowns, found here and on the OP:

Notably, Peroutka did not claim there were any “anomalies” in his own election victory last week. Instead, on his campaign website, he thanked his supporters and promised, if he wins the general election, to “prosecute unlawful officials, secure the right to bear arms, defend life, restore election integrity, and protect our borders. Above all else, Michael Peroutka will bring God back to our great State of Maryland.”
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I made several trips to Severn, Maryland, where Peroutka’s organization, the Institute on the Constitution, or IOTC, held monthly “First Friday” lectures. These lectures, which featured Peroutka’s friends and fellow proponents of “biblical law,” were just one small part of his IOTC. For at least a decade, the IOTC has offered classes on the “biblical” basis of constitutional law to right-wing activists
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During the presentation with Parker, Peroutka said state court judges in Iowa who had ruled in favor of marriage equality should have been impeached because they did not base their ruling on Leviticus 18:22
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Cox touts the endorsement of Arizona state Senator Wendy Rogers, who is a member of the Oath Keepers militia, whose top lieutenants have been indicted for seditious conspiracy for their role in January 6. She spoke at a conference hosted by the Holocaust-denying, Hitler-admiring antisemite Nick Fuentes, where Roger said Fuentes was “the most persecuted man in America” and called for hanging “traitors who have betrayed our country.” Not incidentally, she tweets frequently about Jesus and attending church

Yeah, the mental inmates are set to run the asylum.

EDIT: Fixed URL link.

“They have to get rid of guns, because guns are a practical way, obviously a practical way, the citizenry can fight back”

Yeah, too bad that actually taking up arms against hte government is treason. Minor detail for a Constitutionalist, i suppose.

You failed to paste in the url (the “here” one).

That's fascism and dominionism, not democracy, not about life, not "American" (their "enemies of America" are a straw man). And utter bullshit, everything is upside down. Like their accusation of tyranny when what they want is to impose one. Their accusation of Hitlerism when they're running for nazism and Hitler was Christian. The accusations about democracy when they're the ones trying to demean and corrupt it and the world knows it...

In between the morally vacuous grifters, who stand for nothing but their own power and wealth, and the pure reactionary types, who are constantly jumping between outrages at the things which they don’t understand because they are forbidden to understand them, is the most dangerous at all: the fanatics. No lie too vile, no cheating too low, no crime too unthinkable, and sometimes even no sin too wicked… so long as it leads to the “greater good”. And far too often, this “greater good” looks indistinguishable from their “greater evil”, except in who benefits from it.

Not even trying to hide the fact that what they want is a Christifascist dictatorship anymore, are they?

Also "Gun Freedom Radio"? That's like something straight out of a GTA parody radio station. I can't believe that's real.