The consequences of establishing a neo-fascist personality cult around deranged, autocratic former TV reality show host Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump, and flavoring it with the disturbed Q conspiracy, are on full display with some state Republican parties.
An Oregon Republican Party resolution of January 19 claimed officially that the deadly Capitol insurrection by Trump cult members intended to void the election was instead a "false flag" operation intended to discredit Trump and his cult:
“'The violence at the Capitol was a ‘false flag’ operation designed to discredit President Trump, his supporters, and all conservative Republicans; this provided the sham motivation to impeach President Trump in order to advance the Democratic goal of seizing total power,' the resolution says. [snip]
The Oregon GOP, which has a small minority in the state legislature, nominated Jo Rae Perkins, a follower of the radicalized movement QAnon, to run against Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) in November. Merkley won 57 percent of the vote to Perkins’s 39 percent. [snip]
The Jan. 19 resolution, which the Oregonian reported was approved by party officials rather than elected Republicans in the state, compares GOP lawmakers who voted for impeachment to Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold.
'The ten Republican House members, by voting to impeach Trump, repeated history by conspiring to surrender our nation to Leftist forces seeking to establish dictatorship void of all cherished freedoms and liberties,' the resolution says." (our emphasis)
That last paragraph is a stunning piece of projection by the cultists who were trying to impose their Dear Leader through an armed uprising on the majority of Americans. It mirrors a tweet pinned at the head of the Arizona Republican Party's Twitter account as well.
Meanwhile, the seditionist cultists in Texas are pleading innocence after borrowing a key theme from the Q quack cult as its new slogan. The Houston Chronicle reports:
"The Texas GOP drew attention over the weekend for using its slogan, 'We are the storm,' on publicity materials and its Twitter account, which critics say links the party to QAnon.
"'The Storm' is a phrase widely visible within the QAnon movement, a web of baseless conspiracy theories that claim a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles run the world and were plotting against former President Donald Trump." (our emphasis)
The new chair of the Texas Republican Party is none other than former Florida Congressman and right-wing extremist Allen West, who was forced out of the Army after being charged with violations of the military code.
State political parties are the petri dish for grooming candidates and raising money, and if these two cases are any indication, the Q-flavored Rethuglican Trump cult has embraced its own demise.
