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PFAW Member,

The Republican National Convention begins today and here are some things
you must know:

* This Republican Party – the party under Trump – is the most extreme
major political party in modern times, perhaps all of American
history…

* This year’s crop of GOP candidates – who have WON their Republican
primaries and will be on November’s general election ballot – include
prominent champions of the outlandish and dangerous QAnon conspiracy
theory and notorious racists and religious bigots whose extremism and
hatemongering makes the Tea Party and notoriously racist Republican
Congressman Steve King look almost tame in comparison…

* Those conspiracy theorists and bigots have been backed, congratulated,
and praised as future “stars” of the Republican Party by Trump,
leading GOP members of Congress, and the chair of Republican National
Committee…

* This week’s convention will play into Trump’s racist, dystopian
narrative of America and will include among its featured guests people
like a husband and wife who achieved notoriety for pointing their guns
at peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters… ^[ [link removed] ]

This Republican Convention is going to be ugly. And we’re answering by
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Here are just a couple of examples of candidates Republicans are fielding
this year and what the future of one of America’s two major parties looks
like if the GOP wins in November:

Marjorie Taylor Green, the Republican nominee for the U.S. House of
Representatives in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, is a
high-profile purveyor of the QAnon conspiracy theory who made headlines in
June when Facebook removed her campaign video in which she threatened
antifa—shorthand for anti-fascist activists—while brandishing an AR-15.
The foundational belief of QAnon, a bizarre and convoluted conspiracy
theory that has picked up a massive following on the Right, is – brace
yourself – that prominent Democrats are involved in a global cult of
Satan-worshiping pedophiles and cannibals and that Trump is waging a
behind-the-scenes battle to stop them. Greene has hailed this moment as “a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of
Satan-worshipping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do
it.” QAnon followers have recently been involved in kidnappings, assaults,
and other violent acts.

After Greene’s primary victory, Trump tweeted:

“Congratulations to future Republican Star Marjorie Taylor Greene on a big
Congressional primary win in Georgia against a very tough and smart
opponent. Marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up – a real
WINNER!”

A few days later he praised QAnon followers, the same way he has Nazis and
white supremacists, attributing the sentiment to the fact that they
support him.

Laura Loomer, the Republican nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives
in Florida’s 21st District, stood with white nationalist leaders at her
victory celebration. Her hate speech and affiliation with a hate group
have gotten her banned from online platforms like Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, Medium, PayPal, GoFundMe, and more. She harassed U.S. Rep.
Ilhan Omar at an event, asking, “Ilhan, why did you marry your brother?”
She claims the Clintons are responsible for 33 “suspicious deaths” and
believes they may be trying to kill her with untraceable poison. And she’s
asserted that various mass killings have been “false flag” operations.

As the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank noted in a recent column:

“Loomer has called Muslims ‘savages,” Islam ‘a cancer on society,’ herself
a ‘proud Islamophobe’ and demanded ‘a non Islamic form of Uber or Lyft
because I never want to support another Islamic immigrant driver.’ She
says she wants more migrants to die.

…

“You might think Republican Party leaders would be calling in the white
coats. But there was Roger Stone, the Trump confidant whose prison
sentence the president recently commuted, at Loomer’s victory party,
calling her the ‘Joan of Arc of the conservative movement.’ Loomer told
supporters that Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
congratulated her as a ‘political rock star.’ The state and county GOP
embraced her publicly.” ^[2]

As you can see, the stakes are incredibly high and we need to send a clear
message in this election that America REJECTS this type of dangerous hate
and extremism.

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Thank you for standing with us in defense of democracy and the American
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Sources:

[1] [ [link removed] ]"US couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters 'to speak at
Republican convention'," BBC News, August 18, 2020

[2] [ [link removed] ]"Trump’s Republican Party now has a ballot full of nutters,"
Washington Post, August 19, 2020


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