“Mainstream” my ass. Maybe to a Libertarian U of Chicago prof, but that profile isn’t mainstream. It’s the white, privileged, not-quite-as-educated self-employed assholes who can afford a big house in the suburbs but feel sneered at by their college-educated liberal neighbors who know how to spell and choose wine.
They have always been racist and anti-immigrant. They are also anti-education, anti-science, anti-tax, and wealthy enough and in charge of their own schedule to take the time and incur the expense to stir shit up all over the country.
The clip cuts off, but I hope Ari just turned off Navarro’s mic and said, “Excuse me? Did you just use an antisemitic trope on my show? I mean, Pete, you have a reputation for not doing your homework, but didn’t your people remind you that I’m Jewish? That my grandparents were Holocaust survivors, like George Soros? And you thought I would let that go?”
Unless it’s publicity about how poorly attended your events are, I think. I highly suspect that his people monitoring social media saw that nobody was planning to come. Or just that one guy in the truck with the words scrawled all over it.
I don’t think the threat he poses is at all gone, but I think his power to draw thousands to travel to DC to hang out in the cold just to see him (without some greater “mission”) has been severely diminished.
This was on the front page of today’s WaPo, but I can’t find it on their website (and they have this unhelpful habit of using different headlines for print & web versions of the same article).
"The far-right group that held a lightly attended rally to support people still held in connection with January’s attack on the US Capitol plans a series of candlelight vigils on the anniversary of the riot. A DC event will be held in front of the DC Jail, where about 40 “January Sixers” are held in the Correctional Treatment Facility, a medium-security lockup adjacent to the main jail.
Officials reinstated fencing around the Capitol and instituted other security measures ahead of the group’s previous event. January 6 prisoners at the jail say officials moved them to another part of the facility on that day.
Look Ahead America says it plans to organize transportation to the jail for the vigil and hopes to hold similar events elsewhere. If attendance at the September rally is anything to go by, its transportation costs will be reasonable."
I’d like to see a cross between the DLCC’s information and the Popular Information corporate donors list from The Root article above. Running for office requires money, and if enough people make it clear that companies supporting those candidates will be facing very negative publicity, those funds might dry up. I doubt their Dear Leader is gonna make up the difference.
