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Conservative goes off on 'bigots and wackos' that now make up the Republican Party

Conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin attacked the Republican Party for being the party that welcomes "bigots and wackos" in her Thursday column.

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'The GOP is the party of leftovers': Political observers rip far-right activist's primary victory in Florida

Only a week after QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene won a GOP congressional primary in Georgia, Laura Loomer won a GOP congressional primary in Florida — and now, Loomer will go up against incumbent Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel in the general election. Given how Democratic Frankel’s district is, Loomer will be fighting an uphill battle — unlike Greene, whose district in Georgia is deeply Republican. But Loomer’s campaign is sure to embarrass her party. This is the same Loomer who was banned from Twitter and other social media platforms because of her hateful rhetoric attacking Muslims and others — and who is so extreme that she was even banned from the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference after harassing and badgering reporters (a practice she calls “Loomering”).

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'Conspiracy theorists and unhinged bigots' are racking up wins in GOP primaries: political scientist

Trump-loving candidate Laura Loomer won her primary race to represent the Republican Party in Florida's 21st Congressional District, and a political scientist is warning that she's just the latest "unhinged bigot" to triumph in a GOP primary.

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Georgia Republican’s QAnon poem is an ode to Trump — while calling for ‘death to tyrants and traitors’

Republicans have created a humiliation for their party by nominating Marjorie Taylor Greene, a pro-QAnon conspiracy theorist who has spread disinformation about the 9-11 attacks, for Georgia's safely red 14th Congressional District.

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John Oliver does epic takedown of Georgia conspiracy theorist that Republicans only endorsed after she won

"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver was most aghast by the recent election of a conspiracy theorist in a northwest Georgia congressional primary. Ahead of the election, Republicans wanted nothing to do with GOP candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene. After she won, however, the GOP is all in.

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Trump fans false birther theory about Kamala Harris

US President Donald Trump has stoked false claims that Democratic vice-presidential contender Kamala Harris is ineligible to hold that office because her parents were foreign born.

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‘Coward’ Trump slammed for not disavowing ‘unhinged’ QAnon conspiracy: ‘This is a domestic terrorism movement’

During a press briefing this Friday, President Trump was directly asked about the pro-Trump conspiracy theory known as "QAnon," which claims he's heading a secret operation to hunt down pedophiles within the elite ranks of Hollywood and D.C.

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Trump defends praise for QAnon congressional candidate: 'She had a tremendous victory'

President Donald Trump refused to disavow the QAnon conspiracy theory during his daily coronavirus briefing.

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The GOP's silence on Trump's Kamala Harris birther attack will haunt them for years: CNN analyst

Taking his cue from a highly criticized Newsweek column that suggested that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) might not be legally eligible to serve as vice president, Donald Trump gave it some credence on Thursday -- and that could be damaging to Republicans if they remain silent and don't push back, wrote a CNN political analyst.

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‘Everybody is scared’: GOP insiders fear QAnon’s growing influence will have a ‘devastating impact’ on the entire party

Marjorie Taylor Greene will soon be one of the GOP's newest members of Congress after her recent win of the primary runoff for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. But Greene's rise has created a problem for Republicans, thanks to her adherence to the QAnon conspiracy cult. She also dabbles in other conspiracy theories related to 9/11 and the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, as well Islamophobia and racism.

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'Livid' Republicans consider ousting House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy for tying their fortunes to Trump: report

According to a report from the Washington Post, disgruntled Republican House members have been privately discussing whether they should oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as House Minority Leader should Donald Trump be defeated in November.

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Trump-endorsed GOP candidate questioned whether 2017 Las Vegas massacre was a false flag operation

Trump-endorsed Georgia congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene two years ago wrote an article that questioned whether the 2017 massacre at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas was a false flag operation set up to justify seizing Americans' guns.

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Is this the new Christian right? A new ultra-conservative insanity is rising as evangelicals are fading

Remember the "Left Behind" series, about how the Rapture would whisk away all devout right-wing Christians before Jesus Christ unleashed the apocalypse on the unbelievers? Purity rings? Jesus Camp? Breathless stories about "girls gone mild," giving up sex and tank tops for the Lord? A federal health official who believed that women who had premarital sex couldn't feel love? Jerry Falwell Sr. and Pat Robertson blaming 9/11 on the "pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way"?There can be no doubt that the heyday of Christian fundamentalism in America was the George W. Bush administration. Conservatives craved reassurance that they were defenders of "morality", despite supporting an indefensible invasion of Iraq that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands.  These claims to moral superiority over liberals mainly came in the form of policing hymen status, harassing women at abortion clinics and claiming a right to Christian forgiveness (for yourself) when caught with prostitutes or soliciting gay sex in public bathrooms.

White evangelicals still hold considerable political power, which is why Donald Trump occasionally tries to get photographed fondling a Bible in ways he vainly hopes are convincing. Abortion and LGBTQ rights are still under serious threat, as the Christian right has made major inroads into the federal judiciary.

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