Did you hear concerning the man who had a racist and conspiracy-ridden on-line life earlier than becoming a member of the Trump administration? No, not that man. The opposite man. No, the opposite, different one.
You’re forgiven for being confused about which Trump administration rent we’re speaking about, provided that Monday noticed two separate tales break about their repulsive on-line presences.
American conservatives are, proper now, on track for being each bit as ostracized and alienated from broader society as Jews have been within the years main as much as Nazi Germany. Youngsters are actively indoctrinated in our schooling system to show in opposition to their very own mother and father, Soviet-style, in the event that they really feel their mother and father’ views are outdated or backwards.
Buddy, your child having to be taught concerning the mere existence of transgender folks or maybe that slavery was lower than nice isn’t the identical as being rounded up and put in camps, however positive.
What Lendrum actually grooves on, like a lot of this administration, is watching folks in ache from Trump’s actions. Therefore, his extremely low-rated podcast lovingly dwelling on how a lot he beloved watching members of Congress operating for his or her lives whereas his cult chief’s followers overran the seat of American authorities. So enjoyable! He additionally had the compulsory endorsement of the racist “great replacement theory”—which claims there may be an ongoing effort to make use of immigration to “replace” white Individuals—and equated asylum-seekers with “scum.”
When requested for remark by The Unbiased, DHS shared a hyperlink to the First Modification. Huh. Neat that they sometimes remembered that it exists, what with the Trump administration commonly making an attempt to jail and deport college students for the content material of their speech.
Additionally on Monday, Wired reported a few now-deleted Twitter account linked to E.J. Antoni, whom Trump nominated to prepare dinner the books on the Bureau of Labor Statistics ever because the job numbers made him unhappy. It was already recognized that Antoni was additionally an revolt fanatic.
The deleted account that Wired uncovered is a neatly complete checklist of conservative fixations: COVID-19 denialism, hating Black Lives Matter, retweeting conspiracy crank Jack Posobiec—you get the image. Additionally neat: joshing about how cool it will be to drop a nuclear bomb on China if conspiracy nuts “determined” China “created” COVID:
Antoni’s social media presence was wide-ranging. Consider a renaissance man if “renaissance” means “spewing Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories, misogyny about Kamala Harris, and violent rhetoric about the 2020 election”:
In fact, each of those accounts match proper in with different high-level Trump administration workers. Maybe Lendrum and Antoni can get along with Paul Ingrassia, whom Trump nominated to run the Workplace of Particular Counsel after a wealthy profession as a far-right podcaster and fanboy of white supremacist Nick Fuentes. Heck, name Darren Beattie—expelled for being too racist for the primary Trump administration however now operating the U.S. Institute of Peace—and make it the foursome from hell.
