right wing populism in the united states
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Well Well Well, Look Who Chickened Out During Daddy’s Failed Coup
Today in utter lack of surprises: The House committee investigating the Donald Trump-incited riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 dug up texts showing Fox News stars and at least one of Trump’s interminable sons sent panicked texts urging Trump to call the whole thing off — then promptly went back to pretending Trump did…
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Paul Gosar First Congressman to Be Stripped of Powers Because of Anime
Arizona Representative Paul Gosar, the far-right Republican conspiracy theorist who unsuccessfully tried to launch a white nationalist caucus with QAnon-loving Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene earlier this year, was censured in a full vote of the House on Wednesday. At issue was an anime video that Gosar shared on social video that was doctored to depict…
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Fingers Crossed! QAnon Faithful Await the Return of JFK Jr. on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas
Spoiler alert: JFK Jr. is dead, folks.
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‘This Is a Simple Meme You Would Find on the Internet, but This Meme Is Very Real’
During a floor speech in the House on Wednesday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene used a Scooby-Doo meme to illustrate her claims that Democrats were secretly hiding portions of the Green New Deal in the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Which will, she claimed, bind the U.S. in servitude to China. Which… OK?