The saying "Every accusation is a confession" is proving out once again in the case of a prominent fascist Trumper who's part of a movement obsessed with supposed liberal "groomers":
Over the past month or so, the far right has been embroiled in a scandal involving the alleged grooming practices that its loudest voices have claimed are rampant among liberals. According to two accusers who have come forward, Stop the Steal founder Ali Alexander allegedly came on to them when they were teenage boys, asking for nudes from a 17-year-old and pressuring a 15-year-old to have sex with him.
For those of us who don’t have a mental Rolodex of the movers and shakers of the far right, Alexander is the founder of the campaign to push the conspiracy that Donald Trump was the actual winner of the 2020 election, and he hosted a rally outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that fed the subsequent riot. Alexander’s problems first emerged in March, when fellow far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos aired interviews on his podcast detailing Alexander’s alleged practice of propositioning minors for sex. Yiannopoulos, whose own career was derailed years ago because of old videos purportedly condoning pedophilia, was frustrated that Alexander and white nationalist Nick Fuentes had booted him from Kanye West’s camp...
We'll stop right there. This collection of deeply disturbed sociopathic grifters is right at the core of the activist Trump MAGAt world. Alexander, Yiannopoulos, Fuentes. Some of the worst, most destructive forces in that bottom- dwelling sphere. Of course, the "grooming" accusations are deeply intertwined with QAnon/ Christofascist Republican efforts to paint support for the LGTBQ community as "left-wing indoctrination" in general. Look, for example, at the obsession Florida Gov. Ron "Bootsie" DeSantis has with that "indoctrination" in his war on Disney, "don't say gay/ anti- grooming" legislation, and invocation of his magic conjuring words -- "woke" and "Soros" -- at every opportunity. The odious Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sen. Josh "Hawlin' Ass" Hawley have also milked the issue of liberal "grooming."
In fact, let's remind ourselves of those right- wing hypocrites who've been "groomers" in reality. See here, here, and here for starters.
Now that it's boomeranging (groomeranging?) against some of their most prominent crackpots, we await the fascists' misdirection and/ or silence.
(Photo: he'd like to take your picture, for starters, young man / Carlos Barria, Reuters)
