Head, meet desk: how one Republican posted GOP red-scare idiocy for everyone to see

When Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) found out that radical communists from California were trying to meddle with the critical gerrymandering efforts of Missouri Republicans, she sprang into action.

Wagner took to X — platform formerly known as Twitter — to let it be known that she wasn’t about to stand for any of that. Here’s what she posted:

Now, that’s the kind of bold response we need more of in the country, by God. The last thing Missouri should stand for is to allow California puppets of George Soros to be pushing us around.

There was one small problem, however, with Wagner’s righteous indignation.

Just a detail.

It turns out that she had her Californians a little mixed up.

You see, the offensive post from the California Democrat was referencing a gathering of concerned citizens at the California City Hall Railroad Park right down there on 500 Oak Street in the fine little town of California, Missouri.

Population 4,458, nestled in beautiful Moniteau County, 24 miles west of Jefferson City.

As the great Gilda Radner’s legendary Saturday Night Live character Emily Litella would have said: “Never mind.”

In Wagner’s defense, both the state of California and the town of California, MO are indeed located to our west. The little town is about 140 miles from St. Louis County, conveniently on the way toward the West Coast.

And it turns out that California Democrat is the name of the hometown newspaper, not a political organization in Gavin Newsom’s west coast den of inequity.

That’s easily confused, isn’t it?

And who can blame Wagner for her outrage anyway? If I might really add fuel to the fire, it turns out that the Missouri citizens who gathered at the town railroad park were organized, at least in part, by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Now, if I didn’t happen to be a past president of the ACLU chapter, let me tell you, I’d really go off on the danger posed by this sort of thing.

But Mr. Soros won’t permit me to do that.

In any event, kudos to HuffPost reporter Jennifer Bendery, who grabbed a screenshot of Wagner’s tweet.

For some reason, Wagner has since deleted it.

I don’t know why Wagner would memory-hole the thing.

California needs to butt out of our elections. Right, Emily?

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