QAnon is gaining popularity in the Republican party. This just gets worse and worse.
“I tried explaining the phenomenon to him as best I could, and told [Trump] it would be wise to stay the hell away from it," said a source who'd briefly spoken to Trump about QAnon. No dice. Now Team Trump is openly promoting QAnon kooks. https://t.co/gnHIY2flLd
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) August 12, 2020
Top Republicans, including Pres. Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, are embracing their party's nominee for a House seat in Georgia, despite her history of racist and anti-Semitic remarks and promotion of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory https://t.co/dc6UsLhvSn
— CNN (@CNN) August 12, 2020
Trump campaign leaps to the defense of a group of conspiracy theorists considered a domestic terror threat by the FBI https://t.co/mGVa0xKHn8
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 12, 2020
When the GOP was under assault from the John Birch Society in the ‘60s, responsible conservatives marginalized them.
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 12, 2020
That isn’t happening today. Trump endorsed a QAnon House candidate & retweeted QAnon accounts. Eric Trump posted a giant Q on Instagram.https://t.co/pUWDkDMXnR
Republican congressman criticizes the QAnon nonsense, the Trump campaign responds by going after the congressman: pic.twitter.com/ZJLwXpCRCz
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 12, 2020
Greene is a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy nonsense who has made bigoted remarks about a variety of racial and religious groups. During the primary, senior House Republicans called her words "appalling" and "disgusting." pic.twitter.com/qsPSWSy1En
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 12, 2020
Trump embraces a racist anti-Semite who is a diehard conspiracy theorist. And it will barely cause a ripple in the press corps. Oy https://t.co/y7mVv27nuP
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) August 12, 2020
P.s. Those complaining about the normalization of Greene’s beliefs might want to go to rural GA and try changing voters minds/info flows.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 12, 2020
If you’re familiar with NW GA, the views she’s expressed on race, “Deep State” and other topics are pretty standard GOP talk radio fare.
This candidate won her primary last night, and will almost certainly be coming to Congress as a House Republican. Leaders say she’s welcome into the House Republican Conference. https://t.co/oZ3jMQxzC8
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) August 12, 2020
“Ms. Greene is all but assured of getting the chance to put into action her talk of rooting out an imagined deep-state cabal of pedophile Satanists who are trying to take down President Trump” https://t.co/fB0oyCn3l7
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 12, 2020
Read the legends @rachaelmbade @isaacstanbecker on the big QAnon win in Georgia tonight, by a candidate who called Nancy Pelosi a "bitch" and kicked @bluestein out of the room.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 12, 2020
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If the GOP wants to be a relevant political force in the future, it cannot endorse those who embrace QAnon and other conspiracy theories. https://t.co/Kvxhiu1lRs
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) August 12, 2020
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger tweeted that QAnon has "no place in Congress," a day after Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vocal QAnon conspiracy theorist, won the Republican nomination in a congressional runoff election in Georgia.https://t.co/QveCY7L1xD
— Axios (@axios) August 12, 2020
Sad! 