Laura Loomer says that she's a "proud Islamophobe," said that she doesn't "care" about the 2019 anti-Muslim mass shooting in Christchurch, and has stated that she's in favor of "more" migrant deaths.
The Florida GOP is backing her congressional campaign: https://t.co/BG2L1Zv6f9 pic.twitter.com/lqRamS0Xu9
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) August 19, 2020
Early polling indicates that Loomer is on track for a stomping in November, so it appears unlikely that this loony will be going to Congress. But how has the GOP gotten so deranged that a plain nutjob like this can be a credible candidate in the first place? Granted, “movement conservatism” has been decadent and reactionary from the get-go, and the evangelicals are nuts, but … still; are there no countervailing sane people in the base?
It’s the same thing that has happened to the Southern Baptists, I guess: The whackjobs concentrated as the sane people left.